Program Book - Orozco-Estrada Conducts Romeo and Juliet
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
METPES B E R N O VEMBER 24 25 SEASON
Welcome to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 134th season. For generations, the Orchestra has inspired audiences with its powerful, brilliant, and deeply moving performances. Whether interpreting works performed since its first season, which began in the fall of 1891, or music to be heard for the first time in a world premiere, the musicians of the CSO give their utmost, making each concert a transformative experience.
Anticipation for this season was evidenced by the high demand for the annual Symphony Ball concert, featuring pianist Lang Lang and conducted by Andrés OrozcoEstrada. This benefit, hosted by the Women’s Board, supports the multifaceted work of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association—its industry-leading artistic programs and its educational and community engagement initiatives that nurture tens of thousands of people in Chicago and around the world. We are grateful to this event’s many contributors, especially its presenting sponsor, Northern Trust.
Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti continues his extraordinary artistic partnership with the Orchestra this fall with an all-Beethoven program that includes the Emperor Concerto with pianist Mitsuko Uchida and the Eroica Symphony. Muti’s second program features a CSO commission, a suite of music from the newly released Francis Ford Coppola film Megalopolis, with an original score by former CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Osvaldo Golijov, alongside works of Verdi, Donizetti, Chabrier, and Falla. In November, this season’s CSO Artist-in-Residence Daniil Trifonov makes his first of three appearances in a recital on the Symphony Center Presents Piano series.
We look forward with great anticipation to the return of Zell Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä, who conducts the Orchestra for two weeks next spring, featuring works by Boulez, Brahms, and Dvořák in addition to Mahler’s Third Symphony with the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Among the distinguished guest conductors to grace the podium this fall are Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Christoph Eschenbach, Marin Alsop, Nicholas Kraemer, and Sir Donald Runnicles. KenDavid Masur, whose term as the Civic Orchestra of Chicago’s principal conductor was just extended, leads a special concert of the music of John Williams with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter as soloist. Marek Janowski conducts performances of the Third Symphony by Anton Bruckner, whose bicentennial is celebrated this year (see page 7).
We are so glad you have chosen to make the Chicago Symphony Orchestra part of your life, and we hope to see you throughout the season.
Mary Louise Gorno Chair, Board of Trustees Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association
Jeff Alexander President Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OFFICERS
Mary Louise Gorno Chair
Chester A. Gougis Vice Chair
Steven Shebik Vice Chair
Helen Zell Vice Chair
Renée Metcalf Treasurer
Jeff Alexander President
Kristine Stassen Secretary of the Board
Stacie M. Frank Assistant Treasurer
Dale Hedding Vice President for Development
TRUSTEES
John Aalbregtse
Peter J. Barack
H. Rigel Barber
Randy Lamm Berlin
Merrill Blau*
Roderick Branch
Kay Bucksbaum
Robert J. Buford
Johannes Burlin
Leslie Henner Burns
Marion A. Cameron-Gray
George P. Colis
Keith S. Crow
Stephen V. D’Amore
Timothy A. Duffy
Brian W. Duwe
Judith E. Feldman*
Estefania García*
Jennifer Amler Goldstein
Graham C. Grady
John Holmes
Lori Julian
Neil T. Kawashima
Geraldine Keefe
Donna L. Kendall
Thomas G. Kilroy
Randall S. Kroszner
Patty Lane
Susan C. Levy
Vikram Luthar
Renée Metcalf
Britt M. Miller
Sharon Mitchell*
Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery
Mary Pivirotto Murley
Sylvia Neil
Christopher A. O’Herlihy
Santa J. Ono
Gerald Pauling
LTC. Jennifer N. Pritzker, USA (Ret.)
Dr. Don M. Randel
Dr. Mohan Rao
Melissa M. Root
Burton X. Rosenberg
E. Scott Santi
Steven Shebik
Marlon R. Smith
Walter Snodell
Tracy A. Stanciel*
Dr. Eugene Stark
Daniel E. Sullivan, Jr.
Scott Swanson
Nasrin Thierer
Liisa Thomas
Frederick H. Waddell
Paul S. Watford
Craig R. Williams
Robert Wislow
Ann Marie Wright
Helen Zell
Gifford R. Zimmerman
LIFE TRUSTEES
William Adams IV
Mrs. Robert A. Beatty
Arnold M. Berlin
Laurence O. Booth
William G. Brown
Dean L. Buntrock
Bruce E. Clinton
Richard Colburn
Richard H. Cooper
Anthony T. Dean
Debora de Hoyos
John A. Edwardson
Thomas J. Eyerman
James B. Fadim
David W. Fox, Sr.
Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.
Mrs. Robert W. Galvin
Paul C. Gignilliat
Joseph B. Glossberg
Richard C. Godfrey
* Ex-officio Trustee † Deceased List as of August 2024
William A. Goldstein
Mary Louise Gorno
Howard L. Gottlieb
Chester A. Gougis
Mary Winton Green
Dietrich Gross †
David P. Hackett
Joan W. Harris
John H. Hart
Thomas C. Heagy
Jay L. Henderson
William R. Jentes
Paul R. Judy †
Richard B. Kapnick
Donald G. Kempf, Jr.
Mrs. John C. Kern
Robert Kohl
Josef Lakonishok
Charles Ashby Lewis
Eva F. Lichtenberg
John S. Lillard †
John F. Manley
Ling Z. Markovitz
R. Eden Martin
Arthur C. Martinez
Judith W. McCue
Lester H. McKeever
David E. McNeel
William A. Osborn
Mrs. Albert Pawlick
Jane DiRenzo Pigott
John M. Pratt
Dr. Irwin Press
John W. Rogers, Jr.
Jerry Rose
Frank A. Rossi
Earl J. Rusnak, Jr. †
John R. Schmidt
Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.
Robert C. Spoerri
Carl W. Stern
William H. Strong
Louis C. Sudler, Jr.
Richard L. Thomas
Richard P. Toft
Penny Van Horn
Paul R. Wiggin
SEMPRE
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“I need hardly say that the musical future of Chicago looks to me full of the brightest promise. That this promise may find ample realization is my earnest hope.”
— theodore thomas, founder and first music director of the chicago symphony orchestra
A NEW SEASON BEGINS
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
BEETHOVEN Eroica
R. STRAUSS Don Juan and Don Quixote
TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake
BARTÓK Bluebeard’s Castle
GERSHWIN An American in Paris
SYMPHONY CENTER PRESENTS A journey through musical stories
Daniil Trifonov, CSO Artist-inResidence Klaus Mäkelä, Zell Music Director Designate
Bruckner
Celebrating the bicentennial of composer Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
By Frank Villella
Since the beginning of its history, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has been closely associated with the music of Anton Bruckner.
After the first downtown season of the Chicago Orchestra closed in late April 1892, Theodore Thomas and his new ensemble embarked on a seventeen-concert tour that included stops in Louisville, Nashville, Kansas City (Missouri), Omaha, and finally Cincinnati for that city’s biennial May Festival. Thomas—who founded the festival and served as its music director since 1873—was eager to show off his new orchestra and packed their seven concerts with symphonies, orchestral arrangements of chamber works and songs, extended sections and complete acts
from operas, and large-scale choral works. The fourth concert closed with the U.S. premiere of Bruckner’s Te Deum, featuring the Cincinnati May Festival Chorus. Reception was mixed, with one reviewer calling it, “noisy and brilliant.”
Nearly five years later (and barely three months after the composer’s death), Thomas led the Orchestra in its first performances of a symphony by Bruckner—the Fourth, nicknamed Romantic at the Auditorium Theatre in January 1897. The work was declared, “a source of unmitigated joy,” by the Chicago Journal. “In this glittering and gorgeous handiwork of genius . . . a fitting and lasting monument.”
On February 19, 1904, a capacity crowd at the Auditorium had gathered mainly to hear contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, one of the most famous singers of the day, perform with the Orchestra. Thomas had strategically programmed Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony—the Unfinished, in its U.S. premiere—on the first half of the concert between Schumann-Heink’s two
Theodore Thomas, the Orchestra’s founder and first music director, in 1898, by Alfred J. Cox (1835–1909)
Program page detail from the U.S. premiere of Te Deum at the Cincinnati May Festival on May 26, 1892
selections (an aria from Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito and Schubert’s song “Die Allmacht”) to assure that the work would be heard by all in attendance.
“The name of Bruckner caused these 3,700 persons [over 700 had been turned away] to listen in patient, long suffering to a piece of tedious music which endured for fifty-five wearisome minutes,” wrote an obviously displeased William
Lines Hubbard in the Chicago Tribune. “We have endured four of his symphonies in the last six years—please, Mr. Thomas, is there not somebody else it would be ‘good for us’ to hear?”
The Orchestra continued to regularly perform Bruckner’s music throughout the twentieth century, and beginning in the early 1970s, eighth music director Sir Georg Solti and frequent guest conductor (and later ninth music director) Daniel
Barenboim proved to be true champions of the composer’s works.
On October 5, 1979, in honor of Pope John Paul II’s first visit to Chicago, Solti led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony at Holy Name Cathedral. “It was more than a superb performance . . . one of those never-to-be-duplicated events,” wrote John von Rhein in the Chicago Tribune, as the ensemble
presented “its Brucknerian riches before the Pope.” As the pontiff was leaving the cathedral, he was greeted by thousands of cheering Chicagoans. Gesturing to the crowd, he said, “I assure you, I am not the Chicago Orchestra. I am only the pope. God bless you!”
In March 1979, Barenboim introduced the Symphony no. 0 to Chicago audiences, along with the choral works Helgoland and Psalm 150.
opposite page: Cover of Theodore Thomas’s score to the Ninth Symphony
this page, from top: Daniel Barenboim leads the Orchestra and Chorus in a recording session for Psalm 150 in Orchestra Hall on March 3, 1979 (Robert M. Lightfoot III)
Concertmaster Victor Aitay and Music Director Sir Georg Solti greet Pope John Paul II, following a performance of the Fifth Symphony in Holy Name Cathedral on October 5, 1979 (Robert M. Lightfoot III)
Later, as music director, he led the Orchestra and Chorus’s first performances of the Mass no. 3 in F minor in January 2000, programmed Psalm 150 to celebrate founding chorus director Margaret Hillis’s retirement in September 1994 and the Chorus’s fiftieth anniversary in April 2008, and Te Deum for the gala concert celebrating the opening of Symphony Center in October 1997.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has recorded Bruckner’s symphonies on multiple occasions. As a guest conductor, Barenboim led recording sessions in Orchestra Hall and Medinah Temple for symphonies nos. 0 through 9 as well as Helgoland, Psalm 150, and Te Deum with the Chicago Symphony Chorus (prepared by Margaret Hillis) between 1972 and 1981, all for Deutsche Grammophon. Solti conducted the ten symphonies for London Records beginning in 1980, completing the cycle in
Upcoming
Bruckner performances
NOVEMBER 14–16
1996. Recordings were made in Orchestra Hall, Medinah Temple, and the Bolshoi Hall of the Philharmonie in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) during the Orchestra’s first tour to Russia in 1990.
Additionally, Carlo Maria Giulini, shortly after his tenure as principal guest conductor, recorded the Ninth Symphony for Angel Records in 1976. On the CSO Resound label, Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink led the Seventh Symphony in 2007 and Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti conducted the Ninth in 2016.
On video, a 1963 performance of the first movement from the Seventh Symphony led by guest conductor Paul Hindemith—originally included on WGN’s Great Music from Chicago television series—was released by VAI. Solti conducted the Seventh in London’s Royal Albert Hall in 1978 and the Sixth in Orchestra Hall in 1979, both released by London Records. In 1996 guest conductor Takashi Asahina led the Orchestra in the Fifth Symphony in Orchestra Hall, and the live concert was taped by NHK Classical for commercial video release.
Frank Villella is the director of the Rosenthal Archives. For more information, please visit cso.org/archives
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 3
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Marek Janowski CONDUCTOR
NOVEMBER 26
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 5
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko CONDUCTOR
Bruckner 7 CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
HAITINK
SYMPHONY CENTER PRESENTS PIANO
Daniil Trifonov | NOV 17
2024/25 CSO ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Jean-Yves Thibaudet | JAN 19
Alexandre Kantorow | FEB 2
Mao Fujita | MAR 16
Emanuel Ax | APR 27
Evgeny Kissin | MAY 11
Maria João Pires | MAY 25
Víkingur Ólafsson | JUNE 8
Maria João Pires
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Mao Fujita
PHOTOS BY TODD ROSENBERG
Negaunee Music Institute
As the education and community engagement department of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Negaunee Music Institute transforms lives through active participation in music. Programming educates children, trains young musicians and engages diverse communities, across Chicago and around the world.
Each season, the Negaunee Music Institute invests more than $5 MILLION in industry-leading programs that reach 200,000 PEOPLE across Chicago, around the world and online.
275+
CHICAGO AREA SCHOOLS
22 ,000 STUDENTS
attend CSO for Kids concerts at Symphony Center. Two-thirds of attendees come from Chicago Public Schools.
450 YOUNG MUSICIANS receive intensive instrumental music training from world-renowned faculty over the course of 500 instructional hours.
90+ COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
collaborate with the NMI on social impact programming.
125 CONCERTS
75% OF WHICH ARE FREE —the others for a nominal fee are presented at Symphony Center and in Chicago area neighborhoods.
30 MUSICIANS of the CSO serve as Civic Orchestra coaches.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association is grateful for the generous support of our major corporate sponsors.
EXECUTIVE SPOTLIGHT
RENÉE METCALF, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, DIVISION PERFORMANCE EXECUTIVE, PRIVATE BANK MIDWEST AND MID ATLANTIC DIVISIONS
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Bank of America is proud to continue its long-standing support of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Our partnership not only delivers artistic quality but also helps to create meaningful connections with a diverse audience base in Chicago and around the world.
SCOTT KIRBY, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER United Airlines
United is pleased to serve the CSO as its official airline and proudly supports its remarkable contributions to the performing arts community here in Chicago and beyond. With the CSO, we celebrate the energy that performers and audiences alike bring to our hometown and to the global stage.
robert b. ford, chairman and chief executive officer
Abbott
Abbott and Abbott Fund are proud to support the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of the world’s best orchestras and a highlight of our city. We are honored to continue our long legacy of partnership to bring inspirational music to the world.
michael g. o’grady, chairman, president and chief executive officer Northern Trust
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is rightly regarded as one of the greatest orchestras in the world. Northern Trust is committed to serving our communities and the arts, and we are proud to support—as we have for more than a half century—the CSO’s extraordinary tradition of musical excellence.
melissa root, partner and chicago office managing partner
Jenner & Block LLP
Jenner & Block is proud to share the CSO’s passion for creativity, innovation, and the pursuit of excellence. As a longtime CSO supporter, the firm looks forward to continuing to participate in the symphony’s rich tradition of musical excitement and unfolding artistry in Chicago and the many communities it touches in the United States and around the world.
john m. holmes, chairman, president, and chief executive officer
AAR CORP.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra plays an important role connecting people with opportunities through world-class music. AAR is a proud supporter of the CSO, sharing a commitment to enriching communities in Chicago and worldwide.
maestro residency presenter
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra welcomes Benjamin Beilman, who has graciously agreed to perform at these concerts following the withdrawal of Hilary Hahn.
ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FOURTH SEASON CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
KLAUS MÄKELÄ Zell Music Director Designate
RICCARDO MUTI Music Director Emeritus for Life
Thursday, September 19, 2024, at 7:30 Friday, September 20, 2024, at 1:30
Andrés Orozco-Estrada Conductor
Benjamin Beilman Violin
TILSON THOMAS Agnegram
First Chicago Symphony Orchestra performances
BARBER Violin Concerto, Op. 14
Allegro Andante
Presto in moto perpetuo
BENJAMIN BEILMAN
INTERMISSION
BERNSTEIN
Overture to West Side Story (arr. Peress)
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet
GINASTERA Four Dances from Estancia
The Land Workers
Wheat Dance
The Cattlemen
Final Dance (Malambo)
These performances are made possible by the Juli Plant Grainger Fund for Artistic Excellence. United Airlines is the Official Airline of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. WBBM Newsradio 780 and 105.9 is a media partner for this event.
Violin Concerto by Samuel Barber presented under license from G. Schirmer Inc. and Associated Music Publishers, copyright owners.
COMMENTS by Phillip Huscher
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS
Born December 21, 1944; Los Angeles, California
Agnegram
The first Thomas to conduct this orchestra—Theodore, the Orchestra’s founder and first music director—regularly programmed his own arrangements of music by Bach, Wagner, and others.
Frederick Stock, who succeeded him in 1905, was a serious composer, and the Orchestra played more than a dozen of his works under his baton during his tenure. Jean Martinon, the seventh music director, led several of his compositions during his years at the Orchestra’s helm in the 1960s. In recent years, the Chicago Symphony has welcomed more of these rare hybrid composer-conductors, including Pierre Boulez, Esa-Pekka Salonen, John Adams—and Michael Tilson Thomas.
As a conductor, Michael Tilson Thomas has appeared with the Chicago Symphony over a span of more than fifty years— the longest association with our orchestra of any conductor, including our music directors. He made his Chicago Symphony debut at Ravinia in 1970—he was twenty-five at the time— and he was last with us this past December. As a composer, we have heard from him twice over the years: From the Diary of Anne Frank, a work for narrator and orchestra that was commissioned by UNICEF, at the Ravinia Festival in 1998; and Street Song for Symphonic Brass here in Orchestra Hall in 2008. Agnegram is a work Thomas composed in 1998 as a birthday tribute and revised in 2016. We reprint the following note courtesy of Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony.
Agnegram
Agnegram was written to celebrate the ninetieth birthday of Agnes Albert and is a portrait of her sophisticated and indefatigably enthusiastic spirit. Agnes led a remarkable life. As a vital member of the San Francisco Symphony’s Board of Governors, for half a century she was the symphony’s friend, mentor, patroness, and muse. She grew up performing music and connecting with musicians of all ages. She appeared as a piano soloist with Pierre Monteux on his last concerts as music director of the San Francisco Symphony. She loved young
COMPOSED 1998, revised 2016
FIRST PERFORMANCE
May 15, 1998; San Francisco, California. The composer conducting
These are the first Chicago Symphony Orchestra performances.
this page: Michael Tilson Thomas, photo by Deborah Robison
opposite page: Agnes Albert (1908–2002), onstage at Davis Hall with conductor Herbert Blomstedt and the San Francisco Symphony, November 2001. San Francisco Chronicle/ Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images/ Contributor
people, and one of her enduring legacies is the SFS Youth Orchestra.
The piece is composed of themes derived from the spelling of her name. A—G—E are obviously the notes that they name. B is B-flat (as this note is called in German). S is E-flat, also a German musical term. T is used to represent one note, B-natural, the “ti” of the solfège scale. From these arcane but not unprecedented manipulations (Bach, Schumann, and Brahms, among others, enjoyed this game), a basic “scale” of eight unusually arranged notes emerges, from which all the themes are drawn. The piece itself is a march for large orchestra.
The first part of the march is in 6/8 and is almost a mini-concerto for orchestra, giving brief sound-bite opportunities for the different sections of settling into a jazzy and hyper-rangy tune. The middle section of the march, or trio, is in 2/4 and settles into a kind of sly circus atmosphere. Different groups of instruments in different keys make their appearance in an aural procession. First, the winds in C play a new march tune saying “Agnes Albert.” Then, the instruments in F are heard playing the same
tune. But as these instruments are transposing instruments, although the notes they play read A—G—N—E—S, etc., the notes that are heard are completely different. They are followed by instruments in E-flat and B-flat until quite a jungle-like cacophony is built up—punctuated by alternately elegant and goofball percussion entrances. The section recalls many famous tunes that amused Agnes. There are surreal references to Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, and Irish lullabies, but they appear only to the degree that the notes that they have in common with her name will allow. The jazzy 6/8 tune reappears now in canon, and the piece progresses to a jubilant and noisy ending.
SAMUEL BARBER
Born March 9, 1910; West Chester, Pennsylvania
Died January 23, 1981; New York City
Violin Concerto, Op. 14
In 1939 Samuel Barber accepted a commission from Samuel Fels, a Philadelphia businessman (and the manufacturer of Fels-Naptha soap), who wanted a violin concerto for his adopted son, Iso Briselli, a child prodigy. Briselli was born in Odessa— the birthplace of so many violinists, including David and Igor Oistrakh as well as Nathan Milstein—and he and Barber were members of the first class to graduate from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 1934. Fels offered Barber $1,000—$500 up front, $500 on completion of the score. For a composer at the beginning of his career, it was without doubt a good deal. Or so it seemed at the time.
Barber wrote the first two movements that summer in Switzerland and gave them to Briselli in mid-October. Briselli suggested that Barber should make the finale more virtuosic for the solo violin. There are conflicting accounts of what happened next. According to the version that was repeated in program notes for years, and has since been proven false, Barber wrote a dazzling perpetuum mobile finale, which Briselli declared too difficult; Fels then asked for his money back, and Barber set up a performance to demonstrate that the movement was not impossible to play—and that he needn’t repay the $500, which was already long spent. But in 1982, Briselli, who was by now running the Fels business, told his version of the story to Barbara Heyman, then at work on her definitive Barber biography. Briselli claimed that he had simply informed Barber that he feared the finale was “too lightweight” compared to the first two movements, and that it seemed out of place and oddly inconclusive. Briselli wanted Barber to revise it; Barber refused. They reached an impasse.
A demonstration was set up at the Curtis Institute (where, not incidentally, Fels’s wife Jennie served on the board of
this page: Samuel Barber, portrait. Getty Images, Bettmann/Contributor | op posite page, from left: Mary Louise Curtis, later Bok (1876–1970), arts patron and founder of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia | Aaron Copland (1900–1990), Barber, and Gian Carlo Menotti (1911–2007), photographed by Victor Kraft (1880–1975), Bernardsville, New Jersey, 1945. Library of Congress, Music Division, Aaron Copland Collection
July 30, 1960, Ravinia Festival. Jaime Laredo as soloist, Walter Susskind conducting
April 9, 10, and 11, 1981, Orchestra Hall. Jaime Laredo as soloist, Leonard Slatkin conducting
MOST RECENT
CSO PERFORMANCES
July 25, 2012, Ravinia Festival. Joshua Bell as soloist, James Conlon conducting
October 26 and 27, 2017, Orchestra Hall; October 28, 2017, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. James Ehnes as soloist, James Gaffigan conducting
trustees) in the fall of 1939, but it was designed simply to prove that Barber’s writing was idiomatic and playable. Herbert Baumel, a gifted Curtis student, learned the finale from Barber’s manuscript in just two hours and played it in the studio of Josef Hofmann, the distinguished Curtis director, before a “jury” that included Mary Louise Curtis Bok, the founder of the Curtis Institute, along with Barber and his partner Gian Carlo Menotti. According to Heyman, all parties immediately agreed “that Barber was to be paid the full commission and Briselli had to relinquish his right to the first performance.” (Briselli was not present.) At this point, Barber took to calling it his concerto da sapone, or soap concerto, although it was becoming more of a soap opera. The honor of introducing this now-beloved concerto fell to Albert Spalding, a violinist whose name has a secure place in the history of American music as a result. Eugene Ormandy conducted the premiere, with the Philadelphia Orchestra, in 1941.
What regularly gets lost in the story of this concerto’s difficult genesis is the music itself, as direct and persuasive as anything Barber wrote. The concerto opens with one of Barber’s most inspired ideas, a warm and expansive theme stated at once by
the solo violin. The entire Allegro is like a grand, reflective aria (even in much of his instrumental music, Barber is often a “vocal” composer) with intermittent dramatic episodes, but one in which unabashedly romantic, tonal melody reigns. The Andante, in the elegiac vein of the Adagio for Strings, opens with a poignant oboe solo, which the violin ultimately cannot resist. (In 1948 Barber changed the tempo marking of the first movement from Allegro molto moderato to a less relaxed Allegro, so that the concerto would not appear to open with two slow movements.) The controversial finale is neither particularly lightweight nor unplayable, although its brilliance is not of the more predictably heroic, fireworks variety.
Two footnotes. Herbert Baumel, the young Curtis student whose playing “testified” on Barber’s behalf, substituted for Spalding at the first rehearsal for the premiere and so impressed Ormandy that he was offered a permanent position in the Philadelphia Orchestra.
When Mary Louise Curtis Bok commissioned Barber to write a work for the dedication of the new organ at the Philadelphia Academy of Music in 1960, he refused to accept the fee (reportedly $2,000) because of his longtime gratitude to her, and his admiration for her motto: “for quality of the work rather than quick, showy results.”
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Born August 25, 1918; Lawrence, Massachusetts
Died October 14, 1990, New York City
Overture to West Side Story (Arranged by Maurice Peress)
Originally it was the story of a Jew and a Catholic falling in love during the time of Easter and Passover. Later, the subject was switched to ethnic gang warfare in New York City (it was called Gangway!). But when it opened on Broadway in 1957 as West Side Story, the shape of American musical theater was changed forever, just as Leonard Bernstein had predicted. The initial idea came from Jerome Robbins, whose smart and flashy choreography would contribute so decisively to the final product. In 1949, while Robbins was coaching actor Montgomery Clift on how to play Romeo in a more contemporary manner, Robbins began to envision an updated version of the Shakespeare play. Bernstein’s own log suggests that he realized the show’s broader implications, as well as its enormous challenges, as soon as Robbins contacted him—on January 6, 1949, he wrote:
Jerry R. called today with a noble idea: a modern version of Romeo and Juliet set in slums at the coincidence of EasterPassover celebrations . . . . But it’s all much less important than the bigger idea of making a musical that tells a tragic story in musical-comedy terms, using only musical-comedy techniques, never falling into the “operatic” trap. Can it succeed? It hasn’t yet in our country. I’m excited. If it can work— it’s the first.
But various postponements and interruptions (a musical version of Candide among them), several creative impasses, and Bernstein’s increasingly busy schedule kept the modern Romeo off the boards for another eight years. Finally, on February 1, 1957, Bernstein wrote in his diary: “Candide is on and gone; the philharmonic has been conducted; back to Romeo. From here on, nothing shall disturb the project.” And this time he was
this page: Leonard Bernstein, portrait, ca. 1950s | op posite page, from top: Bernstein with Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021) on opening night of West Side Story, September 26, 1957. Photo by Benjamin Martin (1930–2017)/ Getty Images | Pyotr Tchaikovsky, as photographed by Zakharin, 1865. Saint Petersburg, Russia
COMPOSED
1957; arranged 1965
FIRST PERFORMANCE
September 26, 1957, New York City
INSTRUMENTATION
2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), two oboes (2nd doubling english horn), 2 clarinets (2nd doubling E-flat clarinet and bass clarinet), 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, guitar, harp, piano
FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
October 27, 1962, Orchestra Hall. Arthur Fielder conducting (selections)
June 28, 1964, Ravinia Festival. Seiji Ozawa conducting (Symphonic Dances)
MOST RECENT
CSO PERFORMANCES
October 19, 20, 21, and 24, 2023, Orchestra Hall. James Gaffigan conducting (Symphonic Dances)
July 25, 2024, Ravinia Festival. Marin Alsop conducting (Symphonic Dances)
CSO RECORDINGS
1997. Daniel Barenboim conducting. Teldec (Symphonic Dances)
1998. Renée Fleming and Plácido Domingo as soloists, Daniel Barenboim conducting. London (Prologue, “Tonight,” Rumble, and “Somewhere”)
APPROXIMATE PERFORMANCE TIME 5 minutes
right. By then the working title was East Side Story, but when it was discovered that the tenements on that side of Manhattan had all been razed, the setting was switched to the gang-dominated stretches of the Upper West Side.
West Side Story opened on Broadway on September 26, 1957. Although the reviews were not entirely enthusiastic—Harold Clurman, writing in The Nation, found it “phoney,” and accused Bernstein and his colleagues of slumming in order to make money—nearly everyone agreed
PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY
Born May 7, 1840; Votkinsk, Russia
Died November 6, 1893; Saint Petersburg, Russia
that fresh air had at last blown through Broadway. West Side Story ran for nearly two years (tallying 722 performances), toured nationally for another year, and then returned to New York City for an additional 253 performances. Bernstein’s music became overwhelmingly popular throughout the country almost at once, and over the next few years his publisher was kept busy printing editions of songs, selections, and highlights from the score, as well as arrangements for guitar, Baldwin organ, and even accordion.
When the show opened on Broadway, there was no overture. It began, famously, with the finger snapping clicks of the prologue that introduces the two rival gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, and that’s how most stage productions start. (That’s how Steven Spielberg’s recent film treatment opens as well.) But the 1961 movie, directed by Robbins and Robert Wise, starts with an overture (later finessed by Maurice Peress), which moves like a slideshow from the gang music to “Tonight,” “Maria,” and a sassy mambo, set against sweeping views of Manhattan skyscrapers, settling finally on the doomed streets of the Upper West Side.
Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-Overture after Shakespeare
No other play by Shakespeare has inspired as many composers as Romeo and Juliet.
Throughout the romantic era in particular, the drama held an enormous—and sometimes nearly fatal— attraction. After Berlioz saw Romeo and Juliet in a Paris theater and fell desperately in love with Harriet Smithson, who
played Juliet, he announced his intention to marry the actress and to write a dramatic symphony based on the play—and did both within a decade. The marriage was a mistake, however, and they later separated, but the symphony is one of his greatest works. More than twenty operas have been written on Romeo and Juliet, including Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi (The Capulets and the Montagues), with a mezzo-soprano as Romeo (in the tradition of trouser roles), and Gounod’s enduring
treatment, with the ending rewritten so that the lovers die at the same moment, singing in unison. Prokofiev’s 1940 ballet is now recognized as a twentieth-century classic, although the composer originally wrote a happy ending because he couldn’t imagine how dying lovers could dance. And then, of course, there is Bernstein’s urban West Side Story. But none of these works has surpassed the popularity of Tchaikovsky’s fantasy-overture.
The Russian composer Mily Balakirev apparently first suggested the play to Tchaikovsky as early as the summer of 1869. He continued to push the subject and, when Tchaikovsky wavered, he prodded him. In a letter dated October 6, 1869, he offered literary observations, suggested general guidelines for treating the subject, and even dictated four measures of music to open the work. Before Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet was finished (and it was another ten years before it reached its final
COMPOSED
October 7–November 27, 1869; revised 1870, 1880
FIRST PERFORMANCE
March 16, 1879; Moscow, Russia
INSTRUMENTATION
2 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes and english horn, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, harp, strings
APPROXIMATE
PERFORMANCE TIME
21 minutes
FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
February 3 and 4, 1893, Auditorium Theatre. Theodore Thomas conducting
July 4, 1936, Ravinia Festival. Ernest Ansermet conducting
MOST RECENT
CSO PERFORMANCES
August 15, 2021, Ravinia Festival. George Stelluto conducting
June 10 and 11, 2022, Orchestra Hall. James Gaffigan conducting
CSO RECORDINGS
1954. Antal Doráti conducting. Mercury
1981. Daniel Barenboim conducting. Deutsche Grammophon
1986. Sir Georg Solti conducting. London
1988. Claudio Abbado conducting. CBS
1995. Daniel Barenboim conducting. Teldec
Juliet on the Balcony, watercolor, act 2, scene 2, of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by John Massey Wright (1777–1866), ca. 1800. Folger Shakespeare Library Collection, Washington, D.C.
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form), Balakirev had approved and rejected a number of themes, recommended a new introduction in the style of a Lisztian chorale, and presented his preferred tonal scheme, based on a fondness for keys with five flats or two sharps.
Surprisingly, Tchaikovsky found his own voice with this work; Romeo and Juliet, a “FantasyOverture after Shakespeare,” is his first masterpiece. The original version, composed in just six weeks, was performed in March 1870, with Nicolai Rubinstein conducting. A new version, completed that summer, incorporated Balakirev’s idea of a slow chorale at the beginning. It was played in Saint Petersburg in early 1872. Although Tchaikovsky and Balakirev had a falling out that year, Tchaikovsky continued to turn to Shakespeare for inspiration: in 1873 he fashioned the symphonic fantasy from The Tempest, and late in 1876 complained of losing sleep over Othello, which he was determined to turn into an opera. He dropped the project early in the new year—two years before Verdi and Boito first conceived their Otello. (Hamlet was the last Shakespearean subject to interest Tchaikovsky: he composed a fantasy-overture on it in 1888 and three years later contributed incidental music to a staging of the play in Saint Petersburg.)
In 1878, while he was recuperating from his failed marriage at his brother Modest’s house, Tchaikovsky turned to Romeo and Juliet and was struck by its potential as a great operatic subject. (One night that May, when Modest and sister Alexandra [“Sasha”] went to the theater to see Romeo and Juliet, Tchaikovsky stayed home, put his nieces and nephews to bed, and then read the Shakespeare play for himself.) “Of course I’ll
compose Romeo and Juliet,” he wrote to Modest from Brailov in June, excited by the prospect of writing a new opera. “It will be my most monumental work. It now seems to me absurd that I couldn’t see earlier that I was predestined, as it were, to set this drama to music.” But instead of writing an opera, Tchaikovsky put the finishing touches on the fantasy-overture two years later. (It’s this last version that is now regularly played.)
The idea of composing the opera cropped up in 1881 and again in 1893, and on one of those occasions he sketched a duet for the lovers based on material from the fantasy-overture. But he never orchestrated it and ultimately gave up on the project, perhaps realizing how difficult it would be to surpass his orchestral work on the same subject.
Seldom in Tchaikovsky’s music are form and content as well matched as in Romeo and Juliet. The contrast between family strife and the lovers’ passion ideally lends itself to sonata form, with two dramatically contrasted themes; the conflict assures a fierce and combative development section. Tchaikovsky begins as Balakirev recommended, with solemn and fateful chords that suggest the calm, knowing voice of Friar Lawrence. The street music is noisy and action-packed. The famous love theme begins innocently in the english horn and violas; it was one of Tchaikovsky’s boldest moves to save the big statement of this great melody, fully orchestrated and greatly extended—the way most listeners remember it—for much later, at the climax of the recapitulation. The lovers’ music returns once again in the coda, signaled by the timpani’s dying heartbeat, but there it sounds cold and lifeless.
ALBERTO GINASTERA
Born April 11, 1916; Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died June 25, 1983; Geneva, Switzerland
Four Dances from Estancia
In his native Argentina, Alberto Ginastera was recognized as a major composer from the first public performance of his music. His ballet suite Panambí was an overnight sensation when it was played at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 1937; the complete ballet was successfully staged three years later. (Ginastera eventually destroyed all his scores composed before Panambí, giving the impression that he burst on the scene a fully formed talent.)
In 1941 the U.S. government sent Aaron Copland, a brandname composer as American as hot dogs and baseball, on a goodwill fact-finding tour of Latin America. Before Copland left—his itinerary planned by the Committee for InterAmerican Artistic and Intellectual Relations (its title a marvel of high-handed bureaucratic prose)—he agreed to take careful notes so that he could give a full report and recommend composers for study in the States. In his diary entry for September 26, Copland mentions a young man who is looked upon as the hope of Argentine music:
He is now twenty-five and is certainly the first candidate for a trip to the States from any standpoint. Alberto Ginastera would profit by contacts outside Argentina. He is looked upon with favor by all groups here, is presentable, modest almost to the timid degree, and will, no doubt, someday be an outstanding figure in Argentine music.
But Ginastera was slow to make his entry into the musical life of the United States. In 1941 the success of Panambí persuaded Lincoln Kirstein to commission a ballet from Ginastera for the American Ballet Caravan, a company he was then managing for George Balanchine, who was slated to provide the choreography. But by the time Ginastera had completed Estancia, the
this page: Alberto Ginastera, portrait, ca. 1960, by Annemarie Heinrich (1912–2005) | op posite page: El fonógrafo (The Phonograph), ca. 1895, depicting gauchos in the Argentine Pampas, one of a series of photos by Francisco Ayerza (1860–1901) for an illustrated edition of El Gaucho Martín Fierro by José Hernández (1834–1886). National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina
July 2, 1960, Ravinia Festival. Arthur Fiedler conducting (Final Dance [Malambo])
July 11, 1965, Ravinia Festival. Seiji Ozawa conducting
September 16 and 17, 1970, Orchestra Hall. Henry Mazer conducting (Wheat Dance and Final Dance [Malambo])
MOST RECENT
CSO PERFORMANCES
May 17, 2000, Orchestra Hall. William Eddins, conducting (Wheat Dance)
August 7, 2013, Ravinia Festival. Carlos Miguel Prieto conducting CSO RECORDING
1967. Seiji Ozawa conducting. CSO (Chicago Symphony Orchestra: The First 100 Years)
troupe had disbanded and the premiere was off. Estancia wasn’t staged for another ten years, even in Argentina; the complete original score wasn’t played in the United States until 1991, although by then this suite of four dances from the ballet had become popular concert fare.
In 1942 Ginastera was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation grant to visit the United States, but the trip was postponed because of the war. Finally, in 1945, the composer and his family came to this country as temporary political refugees following Juan Perón’s assumption of power. This was the first of many visits. For sixteen months beginning in December 1945, he lived and composed in the United States; he spent the summer of 1946 at Tanglewood, where he again met up with Copland. But Ginastera continued to roam; after Perón was removed from power in 1955, he returned to Argentina, where he became an indispensable part of the country’s cultural life.
dancing.) Neither Kirstein nor Balanchine ever choreographed the work.
TEstancia is based on the narrative poem El Gaucho Martín Fierro, written by the Argentine José Hernández in 1873, which pits a civilized urban experience against the cowboy way of life. (An estancia is a large cattle ranch set in the plains of Argentina.) Taking place in the space of a single day, it tells of the infatuation between a city boy and a cattle rancher’s daughter. (As the sun is setting, she is finally won over by his unexpected mastery of handling horses—and
he suite Ginastera extracted from the complete score begins in the morning, with the powerful, folklike dance of the Land Workers. The Wheat Dance, in contrast, offers rhapsodic melody and abundant atmosphere in the Pampas, the vast plains that stretch for miles across the land, shimmering in the early sunlight. The Cattlemen’s dance is rich in rhythm, vigor, syncopation, and the energy of the great outdoors. The finale—inspired by the bold malambo dance of the Argentine cowboys—is noisy, intoxicating music of struggle and triumph, as the boy takes part in a traditional dancing competition and wins, over all the gauchos.
Phillip Huscher has been the program annotator for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1987.
PROFILES
Andrés Orozco-Estrada Conductor
FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
October 27, 29, and 30, 2016, Orchestra Hall; October 28, 2016, Edman Memorial Chapel, Wheaton College. Kodály’s Dances of Galánta, Sibelius’s Violin Concerto with Baiba Skride, Ives’s The Unanswered Question with Mark Ridenour, and Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra
MOST RECENT CSO PERFORMANCES
December 9, 10, and 11, 2021, Orchestra Hall. Frank’s Haillí-Serenata, Dvořák’s Violin Concerto with Hilary Hahn, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no. 5
Energy, elegance, and spirit are what distinguish Andrés Orozco-Estrada as a musician. After a successful 2022 collaboration with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, he was appointed, in 2023, the new principal conductor of the Rai Orchestra, whose thirtieth anniversary he celebrates in October with two festive concerts in Turin.
From the 2025–26 season, he takes up the position of general music director of the city of Cologne and Gürzenich kapellmeister. Orozco-Estrada attaches great importance to inspiring the people of Cologne with music and for music, and to representing and presenting Cologne as a city of music internationally. For the 2024–25 season, performances of Bizet’s Carmen mark his opera debut as general music director designate.
At the start of this season, Orozco-Estrada makes his debut with performances of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro at the Semperoper Dresden. Further debuts take him to the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul, and the Orquesta y Coro Nacional de España in Madrid.
Orozco-Estrada has been re-invited to ensembles including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchestre National de France, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, in addition to the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, and the Deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin. He also returns to the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (principal conductor, 2014–21) and the Houston Symphony Orchestra (music director, 2014–22).
Born in Medellín, Colombia, Andrés OrozcoEstrada began his musical education on the violin and received his first conducting lessons at the age of fifteen. In 1997 he moved to Vienna, where he was accepted into the conducting class of Uroš Lajovic, a student of the legendary Hans Swarowsky, at the renowned University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where he has been professor of orchestral conducting since 2022.
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Benjamin Beilman Violin
FIRST CSO PERFORMANCES
August 9, 2023, Ravinia Festival. Bruch’s Violin Concerto no. 1, Jonathon Heyward conducting December 14, 15, and 16, 2023, Orchestra Hall. Saint-Saëns’s Violin Concerto no. 3, Semyon Bychkov conducting
Benjamin Beilman is one of the leading violinists of his generation, having won international praise for his passionate performances and deep, rich tone.
Beilman’s 2024–25 season includes a return to the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Roderick Cox in music by Korngold and to the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra with Ha-Na Chang in music by Bruch at the Laeiszhalle. He also debuts with the Belgian National Orchestra, reuniting with Michael Schønwandt in Stravinsky’s concerto and with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in music by Korngold. In the United States, appearances include a return to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra with Ramón Tebar for Saint-Saëns’s Violin Concerto no. 3 and a recital tour with pianist Steven Osborne.
Last season included performances in Europe with the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart alongside Elim Chan; a return to the Cologne Philharmonie with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken; and appearances at the Grafenegg Festival, Festpielhaus St. Pölten, and the Musikverein in Vienna with the Tonkünstler Orchestra Lower Austria and Tabita Berglund. He also returned to play-direct the London Chamber Orchestra and reunited
with Ryan Bancroft for his debut with BBC National Orchestra of Wales. In the United States, he debuted with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra under Cristian Măcelaru and returned to the Minnesota Orchestra with Elim Chan.
Beilman has performed with many major orchestras worldwide. He has also extensively toured Australia in recital under Musica Aviva Australia, and in 2022 he became one of the youngest artists ever appointed to the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
In recent seasons, his commitment to and passion for contemporary music has resulted in new works written for him by Frederic Rzewski and Gabriella Smith. He has also given multiple performances of Jennifer Higdon’s Violin Concerto and recorded Thomas Larcher’s concerto with the Tonkünstler Orchestra and Hannu Lintu, as well as premiered Chris Rogerson’s Violin Concerto (The Little Prince) with the Kansas City Symphony and Gemma New.
Conductors with whom he works include Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Lahav Shani, Krzysztof Urbański, Matthias Pintscher, Karina Canellakis, Jonathon Heyward, Juraj Valčuha, Rafael Payare, Osmo Vänskä, and Giancarlo Guerrero, among others.
Benjamin Beilman studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ida Kavafian and Pamela Frank, and with Christian Tetzlaff at the Kronberg Academy. He has received many prestigious accolades, among them a BorlettiBuitoni Trust Fellowship, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a London Music Masters Award. He has also recorded works by Stravinsky, Janáček, and Schubert for Warner Classics. He performs with the ex-Balaković F.X. Tourte bow (ca. 1820) on the 1740 “Ysaÿe” Guarneri del Gesù instrument, generously on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.
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CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra—consistently hailed as one of the world’s best—marks its 134th season in 2024–25. The ensemble’s history began in 1889, when Theodore Thomas, the leading conductor in America and a recognized music pioneer, was invited by Chicago businessman Charles Norman Fay to establish a symphony orchestra. Thomas’s aim to build a permanent orchestra of the highest quality was realized at the first concerts in October 1891 in the Auditorium Theatre. Thomas served as music director until his death in January 1905, just three weeks after the dedication of Orchestra Hall, the Orchestra’s permanent home designed by Daniel Burnham.
Frederick Stock, recruited by Thomas to the viola section in 1895, became assistant conductor in 1899 and succeeded the Orchestra’s founder. His tenure lasted thirty-seven years, from 1905 to 1942—the longest of the Orchestra’s music directors. Stock founded the Civic Orchestra of Chicago— the first training orchestra in the U.S. affiliated with a major orchestra—in 1919, established youth auditions, organized the first subscription concerts especially for children, and began a series of popular concerts.
Three conductors headed the Orchestra during the following decade: Désiré Defauw was music director from 1943 to 1947, Artur Rodzinski in 1947–48, and Rafael Kubelík from 1950 to 1953. The next ten years belonged to Fritz Reiner, whose recordings with the CSO are still considered hallmarks. Reiner invited Margaret Hillis to form the Chicago Symphony Chorus in 1957. For five seasons from 1963 to 1968, Jean Martinon held the position of music director.
Sir Georg Solti, the Orchestra’s eighth music director, served from 1969 until 1991. His arrival launched one of the most successful musical partnerships of our time. The CSO made its first overseas tour to Europe in 1971 under his direction and released numerous award-winning recordings. Beginning in 1991, Solti held the title of music director laureate and returned to conduct the Orchestra each season until his death in September 1997.
Daniel Barenboim became ninth music director in 1991, a position he held until 2006. His tenure was distinguished by the opening of Symphony Center in 1997, appearances with the Orchestra in the dual role of pianist and conductor, and twenty-one international tours. Appointed by Barenboim in 1994 as the Chorus’s second director, Duain Wolfe served until his retirement in 2022.
In 2010, Riccardo Muti became the Orchestra’s tenth music director. During his tenure, the Orchestra deepened its engagement with the Chicago community, nurtured its legacy while supporting a new generation of musicians and composers, and collaborated with visionary artists. In September 2023, Muti became music director emeritus for life.
In April 2024, Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä was announced as the Orchestra’s eleventh music director and will begin an initial five-year tenure as Zell Music Director in September 2027.
Carlo Maria Giulini was named the Orchestra’s first principal guest conductor in 1969, serving until 1972; Claudio Abbado held the position from 1982 to 1985. Pierre Boulez was appointed as principal guest conductor in 1995 and was named Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus in 2006, a position he held until his death in January 2016. From 2006 to 2010, Bernard Haitink was the Orchestra’s first principal conductor.
Pianist Daniil Trifonov is the CSO’s Artist-inResidence for the 2024–25 season.
The Orchestra first performed at Ravinia Park in 1905 and appeared frequently through August 1931, after which the park was closed for most of the Great Depression. In August 1936, the Orchestra helped to inaugurate the first season of the Ravinia Festival, and it has been in residence nearly every summer since.
Since 1916, recording has been a significant part of the Orchestra’s activities. Recordings by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus— including recent releases on CSO Resound, the Orchestra’s recording label launched in 2007— have earned sixty-five Grammy awards from the Recording Academy.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä Zell Music Director Designate
Riccardo Muti Music Director Emeritus for Life
Daniil Trifonov Artist-in-Residence
VIOLINS
Robert Chen Concertmaster
The Louis C. Sudler
Chair, endowed by an
anonymous benefactor
Stephanie Jeong
Associate Concertmaster
The Cathy and Bill Osborn Chair
David Taylor*
Assistant Concertmaster
The Ling Z. and Michael C.
Markovitz Chair
Yuan-Qing Yu
Assistant Concertmaster
So Young Bae
Cornelius Chiu
Gina DiBello
Kozue Funakoshi
Russell Hershow
Qing Hou
Matous Michal
Simon Michal
Sando Shia
Susan Synnestvedt
Rong-Yan Tang
Baird Dodge Principal
Danny Yehun Jin
Assistant Principal
Lei Hou
Ni Mei
Hermine Gagné
Rachel Goldstein
Mihaela Ionescu
Melanie Kupchynsky
Wendy Koons Meir
Joyce Noh
Ronald Satkiewicz
Florence Schwartz
VIOLAS
Teng Li Principal
The Paul Hindemith
Principal Viola Chair
Catherine Brubaker
Youming Chen
Sunghee Choi
Wei-Ting Kuo
Danny Lai
Weijing Michal
Diane Mues ‡
Lawrence Neuman
Max Raimi
CELLOS
John Sharp Principal
The Eloise W. Martin Chair
Kenneth Olsen
Assistant Principal
The Adele Gidwitz Chair
Karen Basrak
The Joseph A. and Cecile
Renaud Gorno Chair
Richard Hirschl
Daniel Katz
Katinka Kleijn
Brant Taylor
The Blickensderfer
Family Chair
BASSES
Alexander Hanna Principal
The David and Mary Winton
Green Principal Bass Chair
Alexander Horton
Assistant Principal
Daniel Carson
Ian Hallas
Robert Kassinger
Mark Kraemer
Stephen Lester
Bradley Opland
Andrew Sommer
HARP
Lynne Turner
FLUTES
Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson
Principal
The Erika and Dietrich M.
Gross Principal Flute Chair
Emma Gerstein
Jennifer Gunn
PICCOLO
Jennifer Gunn
The Dora and John Aalbregtse Piccolo Chair
OBOES
William Welter Principal
Lora Schaefer
Assistant Principal
Scott Hostetler
ENGLISH HORN
Scott Hostetler
CLARINETS
Stephen Williamson Principal
John Bruce Yeh
Assistant Principal
The Governing
Members Chair
Gregory Smith
E-FLAT CLARINET
John Bruce Yeh
BASSOONS
Keith Buncke Principal
William Buchman
Assistant Principal
Miles Maner
HORNS
Mark Almond Principal
James Smelser
David Griffin
Oto Carrillo
Susanna Gaunt
Daniel Gingrich
TRUMPETS
Esteban Batallán § Principal
The Adolph Herseth
Principal Trumpet Chair, endowed by an
anonymous benefactor
Mark Ridenour
Assistant Principal
John Hagstrom
The Bleck Family Chair
Tage Larsen
The Pritzker Military Museum & Library Chair
TROMBONES
Jay Friedman Principal
The Lisa and Paul Wiggin
Principal Trombone Chair
Michael Mulcahy
Charles Vernon
BASS TROMBONE
Charles Vernon
* Assistant concertmasters are listed by seniority. ‡ On sabbatical § On leave
TUBA
Gene Pokorny Principal
The Arnold Jacobs Principal Tuba Chair, endowed by Christine Querfeld
TIMPANI
David Herbert Principal
The Clinton Family Fund Chair
Vadim Karpinos
Assistant Principal
PERCUSSION
Cynthia Yeh Principal
Patricia Dash
Vadim Karpinos
LIBRARIANS
Justin Vibbard Principal
Carole Keller
Mark Swanson
CSO FELLOWS
Jesús Linárez Violin
The Michael and Kathleen Elliott Fellow
Olivia Reyes Bass
ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL
John Deverman Director
Anne MacQuarrie
Manager, CSO Auditions and Orchestra Personnel
STAGE TECHNICIANS
Christopher Lewis
Stage Manager
Blair Carlson
Paul Christopher
Chris Grannen
Ryan Hartge
Peter Landry
Joshua Mondie
The CSO’s music director position is endowed in perpetuity by a generous gift from the Zell Family Foundation. The Nancy and Larry Fuller, Gilchrist Foundation, and Louise H. Benton Wagner chairs currently are unoccupied. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra string sections utilize revolving seating. Players behind the first desk (first two desks in the violins) change seats systematically every two weeks and are listed alphabetically. Section percussionists also are listed alphabetically.
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION GOVERNING MEMBERS
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GOVERNING MEMBERS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Merrill Blau Chair
Charles Emmons, Jr. Immediate Past Chair
Judy Blau Vice Chair of Member Engagement
Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck Vice Chair of the Annual Fund
Lisa Ross Vice Chair of Nominations & Membership
GOVERNING MEMBERS
Anonymous (8)
Dora J. Aalbregtse
Floyd Abramson
Ms. Patti Acurio
Ayana Akpan
Fraida Aland
Sandra Allen
Gary Allie
Robert Alsaker
Cat Anderson
Megan P. Anderson
Dr. Edward Applebaum
David Arch
Dr. Kent Armbruster
Dr. Carey August
Hillary August
Susan Baird
Ms. Judith Barnard
Merrill Barnes
Peter Barrett †
Roberta Barron
Roger Baskes
Ms. Sandra Bass
Cynthia Bates
Deborah Baughman
Robert H. Baum
Mrs. Robert A. Beatty
Daniel Bedford
Kirsten Bedway
Gail Eisenhart Belytschko
Edward H. Bennett III
Meta S. Berger
D. Theodore Berghorst
Ann Berlin
Phyllis Berlin
Mr. William E. Bible
Mrs. Arthur A. Billings
Joyce Black
Dianne Blanco
Judy Blau
Merrill Blau
Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck
Ann Blickensderfer
Terry Boden
† Deceased
Fred Boelter
Peter Borich
Mrs. Suzanne Borland
James G. Borovsky
Adam Bossov
Janet S. Boyer
John D. Bramsen
Ms. Jill Brennan
Mrs. William Gardner Brown
Sue Brubaker
Mrs. Patricia M. Bryan
Gilda Buchbinder
Rosemarie Buntrock
Elizabeth Nolan Buzard
Ms. Lutgart Calcote
Thomas Campbell
Ms. Vera Capp
Wendy Alders Cartland
Mrs. William C. Childs
Linton J. Childs
Frank Cicero, Jr.
Patricia A. Clickener
Mitchell Cobey
Jean M. Cocozza
Carol Cohen
Robin Tennant Colburn
Mrs. Jane B. Colman
Eileen Conaghan
Dr. Thomas H. Conner
Ms. Cecilia Conrad
Beverly Ann Conroy
Taylor Corbitt
Jenny L. Corley
Nancy Corral
Ms. Sarah Crane
Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven
Mr. Richard Cremieux
R. Bert Crossland
Rebecca E. Crown
Daniel R. Cyganowski
Catherine Daniels
Mrs. Robert J. Darnall
Dr. Tapas K. Das Gupta
Roxanne Decyk
Nancy Dehmlow
Mrs. Suzanne Demirjian
Duane M. DesParte
Janet Wood Diederichs
Doug Donenfeld
Mrs. William F. Dooley
Sara L. Downey
Ms. Ann Drake
David Dranove
Robert Duggan
Mimi Duginger
Mr. Frank A. Dusek, CPA
Mrs. David P. Earle III
Eric Easterberg and Cindy Pan
Judge Frank H. Easterbrook
Mrs. Dorne Eastwood
Mrs. Larry K. Ebert
Louis M. Ebling III
Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten
Jon Ekdahl
Kathleen H. Elliott
Charles Emmons, Jr.
Scott Enloe
Dr. James Ertle
William Escamilla
Dr. Marilyn D. Ezri
Neil Fackler
Melissa Sage Fadim
Jeffrey Farbman
Mr. Don Fehrs
Signe Ferguson
Hector Ferral, M.D.
Ms. Constance M. Filling
Mr. Daniel Fischel
Jenny Fischer
Henry Fogel
Mrs. John D. Foster
David S. Fox
Anne Fraumann
Williard Fraumann
Mr. Paul E. Freehling
Mitzi Freidheim
Marjorie Friedman Heyman
Malcolm M. Gaynor
Robert D. Gecht
Frank Gelber
Mrs. Lynn Gendleman
Dr. Mark Gendleman
Rabbi Gary S. Gerson
Dr. Bernardino Ghetti
Karen Gianfrancisco
Ellen Gignilliat
Mr. James J. Glasser †
Madeleine Glossberg
Mrs. Judy Goldberg
Mrs. Mary Anne Goldberg
Anne Goldstein
Jerry A. Goldstone
Mary Goodkind
Dr. Alexia Gordon
Mr. Michael D. Gordon
Donald J. Gralen
Ruth Grant
Mrs. Hanna H. Gray
Mary L. Gray
Dana Green Clancy
Freddi L. Greenberg
Delta A. Greene
Joyce Greening
Dr. Jerri Greer
Dr. Katherine L. Griem
Kendall Griffith
Jerome J. Groen
Jacalyn Gronek
John P. Grube
James P. Grusecki
Dongqi Guo
Anastasia Gutting
Lynne R. Haarlow
Joan M. Hall
Dr. Howard Halpern
Mrs. Richard C. Halpern
Anne Marcus Hamada
Josephine Hammer
Joel L. Handelman
John Hard
James W. Haugh
Thomas Haynes
James Heckman
Mrs. Patricia Herrmann Heestand
Marilyn P. Helmholz
Richard H. Helmholz
Dr. Arthur L. Herbst
Jeffrey W. Hesse
Konstanze L. Hickey
Thea Flaum Hill
Italics indicate Governing Members who have served at least five terms (fifteen years or more).
Dr. Richard Hirschmann
Suzanne Hoffman
Anne Hokin
Wayne J. Holman III
Fred E. Holubow †
Mr. James Holzhauer
Carol Honigberg
Janice L. Honigberg
Mrs. Nancy A. Horner
Mrs. Arnold Horween
Frances G. Horwich
Dr. Mary L. Houston
Patricia J. Hurley
Michael Huston
Barbara Ann Huyler
Ms. Sandra Ihm
Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs
Dr. Todd Janus
John Jawor
Ms. Justine Jentes
Brian Johnson
George E. Johnson
Raymonda Johnson
Ronald B. Johnson
Dr. Patricia Collins Jones
Edward T. Joyce
Mrs. Carol K. Kaplan †
Claudia Norris Kapnick
Mrs. Lonny H. Karmin
Barry D. Kaufman
Kenneth Kaufman
Marie Kaufman
Don Kaul
Molly Keller
Jonathan Kemper
Nancy Kempf
Elizabeth I. Keyser
Leslie Kiesel
Emmy King
Susan Kiphart
Carol Kipperman
Dr. Leonard Klein
Dr. Elaine H. Klemen
Carol Evans Klenk
Mrs. Janet Knauff
Mr. Henry L. Kohn
Dr. Mark Kozloff
Dr. Michael Krco
Eldon Kreider
David Kreisman
MaryBeth Kretz
Dr. Vinay Kumar
Mr. Rubin Kuznitsky
Mr. John LaBarbera
Dr. Lynda Lane
Frederick and Virginia Langrehr
Stephen and Maria Lans
William J. Lawlor III
Sunhee Lee
Dr. Anu Leemann
Dean Leff
Jonathon Leik
Sheila Fields Leiter
Jeffrey Lennard
Zafra Lerman
Jerrold Levine
Laurence H. Levine
Mrs. Bernard Leviton
Gregory M. Lewis
Carolyn Lickerman
Mrs. Paul Lieberman
Jane Loeb
Gabrielle Long
Amy Lubin
Anna Lysakowski
Carol MacArthur
Mrs. Duncan MacLean
Jacen Maleck
Dr. Michael S. Maling
Sharon L. Manuel
David A. Marshall
Judith Partipilo Marth
Patrick A. Martin
Ryan Martin
BeLinda I. Mathie
Charles McCall
Scott McCue
Ann Pickard McDermott
Dr. James L. McGee
Dr. John P. McGee †
Mrs. Lester McKeever
John A. McKenna
Mrs. Peter McKinney
James Edward McPherson
Sheila Medvin
Mr. Paul Meister
Dr. Ellen Mendelson
Mara Mills Barker
Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery
David H. Moscow
John H. Mugge
Daniel R. Murray
Mr. Stuart C. Nathan
Mrs. Ray E. Newton, Jr.
Edward A. Nieminen
Dr. Zehava L. Noah
Kenneth R. Norgan
Martha C. Nussbaum
William A. Obenshain
Shelley Ochab
Maria Ochs
Mrs. James J. O’Connor
Eric Oesterle
Wallace Olliver
Mrs. Katherine Olson
Joy O’Malley
Michael Oman
Kathleen Field Orr
Mr. Gerald A. Ostermann
James J. O’Sullivan, Jr.
Bruce L. Ottley
Pamela Papas
Mr. Bruno A. Pasquinelli
Mr. Timothy J. Patenode
Robert J. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Michael Payette
Mrs. Richard S. Pepper †
Jean E. Perkins
Mr. Michael A. Perlstein
Bonnie Perry
Dr. William Peruzzi
Robert C. Peterson
Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.
Sue N. Pick
Betsey N. Pinkert
Ms. Emilysue Pinnell
Harvey R. Plonsker
Mr. John F. Podjasek, III
Andrew Porte
Charlene H. Posner
Stephen Potter
Carol Prins
Elizabeth H. Pritchard
Maridee Quanbeck
Mrs. Lynda Rahal
Diana Mendley Rauner
Susan Regenstein
Mari Yamamoto Regnier
Mary Thomson Renner
Hilda Richards
Burton R. Rissman
Charles T. Rivkin
Carol Roberts
Mr. John H. Roberts
William Roberts
David Robin
Dr. Diana Robin
Chauncey H. Robinson
Bob Rogers
Kevin M. Rooney
Harry J. Roper
Saul Rosen
Sheli Z. Rosenberg
Dr. Ricardo T. Rosenkranz
Michael Rosenthal
Doris Roskin
Lisa Ross
Jean Rothbarth
Maija Rothenberg
Helen Rubenstein
Roberta H. Rubin
Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz
Sandra K. Rusnak
David W. “Buzz” Ruttenberg
Richard O. Ryan
Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan
Dr. Christine Rydel
Norman K. Sackar
Anthony Saineghi
Mr. Agustin G. Sanz
Inez Saunders
Libby Savner
Karla Scherer
David M. Schiffman
Judith Feigon Schiffman
Rosa Schloss
Al Schriesheim
Elizabeth Schroeder
Donald L. Schwartz
Susan H. Schwartz
Dr. Penny Bender Sebring
Chandra Sekhar
Mrs. Richard J.L. Senior
Ilene W. Shaw
Pam Sheffield
James C. Sheinin, M.D.
Richard W. Shepro
Jessie Shih
Junia Shlaustas
Caroline Orzac Shoenberger
Stuart Shulruff
Adele Simmons
Linda Simon
Mr. Larry Simpson
Craig Sirles
Miyam Slater
Christine A. Slivon
Valerie Slotnick
Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.
Charles F. Smith
Louise K. Smith
Mary Ann Smith
Stephen R. Smith
Mrs. Ralph Smykal
Naomi Pollock and David Sneider
Diane Snyder
Kimberly Snyder
Kathleen Solaro
Ms. Elysia M. Solomon
Dr. Stuart Sondheimer
Orli Staley
William D. Staley
Helena Stancikas
Grace Stanek
Ms. Denise M. Stauder
Leonidas Stefanos
Penelope Steiner
Mrs. Richard J. Stern
Liz Stiffel
Mr. John Stover
Mary Stowell
Lawrence E. Strickling
Patricia Study
Cheryl Sturm
BISCO Foundation
Mrs. Robert Szalay
Mr. Gregory Taubeneck
Chris Thomas
James E. Thompson
Dr. Robert Thomson
Ms. Carla M. Thorpe
Joan Thron
David Timm
Mrs. Ray S. Tittle, Jr.
William R. Tobey, Jr. †
Bruce Tranen †
James M. (Mack) Trapp
John T. Travers
David Trushin
Dr. David A. Turner
Robert W. Turner
Janet Underwood
Zalman Usiskin
Mrs. James D. Vail III
John Van Horn
Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice
Thomas D. Vander Veen
Jennifer Vianello
Dr. Michael Viglione
Catherine M. Villinski
Charles Vincent
Mr. Christian Vinyard
Theodore Wachs
Mark A. Wagner
Beth Ann Waite
Bernard T. Wall
Dr. Catherine L. Webb
Jeffrey J. Webb
Mrs. Jacob Weglarz
Chickie Weisbard
Richard Weiss
Robert G. Weiss
Dr. Marc Weissbluth
Rebecca West
Carmen Wheatcroft
Leah Williams
M.L. Winburn
Peter Wolf
Laura Woll
Dr. Hak Yui Wong
Courtenay R. Wood
Michael H. Woolever
Ms. Debbie Wright
Nancy G. Wulfers
Ronald Yonover
Owen Youngman
Priscilla Yu
David J. Zampa
Dr. John P. Zaremba
Karen Zupko
For complete donor listings, please visit the Richard and Helen Thomas Donor Gallery at cso.org/donorgallery.
† Deceased
Italics indicate Governing Members who have served at least five terms (fifteen years or more).
Corporate Partners
MAESTRO RESIDENCY PRESENTER Bank of America
OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF THE CSO
United Airlines
$100,000–$199,999
Abbott Fund
Allstate Insurance Company
CIBC Private Wealth
Citadel and Citadel Securities
ITW
Northern Trust
$50,000–$99,999
Abbott Anonymous (1)
BMO
DIOR
Jenner & Block LLP
PNC Bank
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
$25,000–$49,999
AAR CORP.
Altair Advisers LLC
Anonymous (1)
Kinder Morgan
Latham & Watkins LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
S&C Electric Company Fund
Sidley Austin LLP
Walgreens
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP
$10,000–$24,999
ADM
Deloitte
GCM Grosvenor
Goldman Sachs & Co.
Huron Consulting Group
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
McGuireWoods LLP
McKinsey & Company
Millennium Garages
Peoples Gas
TravTours, Inc.
Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
$5,000–$9,999
Ariel Investments
Baird Dentons
Fellowes, Inc.
Global Verification Network
Italian Village Restaurants
Mars Snacking
Scott Byron & Co., Inc.
Segal Consulting
The Law Offices of Jonathan N. Sherwell
Starshak & Winzenburg
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP
$1,000–$4,999
American Agricultural Insurance Company
Amsted Industries Incorporated
AspireUp
Central Building & Preservation L.P.
Chicago Blackhawks Foundation
DS&P Insurance Services, Inc.
Nascar Events and Entertainment, LLC
Parkway Elevators
Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation
Show Services
Smith Hulsey & Busey
Foundations and Government Agencies
$100,000 AND ABOVE
Julius N. Frankel Foundation
JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of DuPage Foundation
The Negaunee Foundation
Sargent Family Foundation
State of Illinois
TAWANI Foundation
Zell Family Foundation
$50,000–$99,999
Paul M. Angell Family Foundation
The Brinson Foundation
The Chicago Community Trust
Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund, in memory of Joanne Strauss Crown
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation
Leslie Fund, Inc.
Sally Mead Hands Foundation
Illinois Arts Council
National Endowment for the Arts
Polk Bros. Foundation
$25,000–$49,999
Crain-Maling Foundation
The Crown Family
Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation
John R. Halligan Charitable Fund
Irving Harris Foundation
Bowman C. Lingle Trust
Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation
$10,000–$24,999
Anonymous
Barker Welfare Foundation
Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation
The Buchanan Family Foundation
The Clinton Family Fund
Darling Family Foundation
William M. Hales Foundation
The Maval Foundation
Pritzker Traubert Foundation
Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation
The George L. Shields Foundation
$5,000–$9,999
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music
The Allyn Foundation, Inc.
Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation
Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation
Hoellen Family Foundation
Hunter Family Foundation
Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation
Kovler Family Foundation
E. Nakamichi Foundation
Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation
Dr. Scholl Foundation
$1,000–$4,999
Franklin Philanthropic Foundation
Geraldi Norton Foundation
Walter and Caroline Sueske
Charitable Trust
Annual Support
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their annual gifts and commitments in support of the CSOA through July 2024. To learn more, please call Bobbie Rafferty, Director, Individual Giving and Affiliated Donor Groups, at 312-294-3165.
$150,000 AND ABOVE
Anonymous
Randy L. and Melvin R. † Berlin
Kenneth C. Griffin, Citadel and Citadel Securities
Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes
Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation
Margot and Josef Lakonishok
The Negaunee Foundation
COL (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired)
Megan and Steve Shebik
Gene and Jean Stark
Zell Family Foundation
$100,000–$149,999
Anonymous (4)
Michael and Kathleen Elliott
Mr. & Mrs. James B. Fadim
James and Brenda Grusecki
Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett
Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz
Ruth Ann and Neil K. Quinn Family
Ms. Cecelia Samans
$75,000–$99,999
Nancy Dehmlow
John Hart and Carol Prins
Cathy and Bill Osborn
Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation
Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell
Lisa and Paul Wiggin
$50,000–$74,999
Anonymous
Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV
Mrs. Janet R. Bauer
Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz
Dr. Leonard and Phyllis Berlin
SEMPRE
Kay Bucksbaum
Dean L. and Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation
Dr. Eugene F. and Mrs. SallyAnn D. Fama
Rhoda and Henry Frank Family Foundation
This $175 million fundraising effort provides the secure footing needed to promote the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s preeminent role as a cultural icon showcasing musical brilliance, leadership, and innovation. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association gratefully acknowledges the generous donors who have shown tremendous support for this strategic initiative. Contact Al Andreychuk at 312-294-3150 for more information.
$20,000,000 AND ABOVE
Zell Family Foundation
The Negaunee Foundation
$10,000,000–$19,999,999
The Grainger Foundation TAWANI Foundation
$5,000,000–$9,999,999
Anonymous
Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation
Ling Z. and Michael C. Markovitz
$2,500,000–$4,999,999
Anonymous
Mary Louise Gorno
Estate of Esther G. Klatz
Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett
Megan and Steve Shebik
Richard and Helen Thomas
$1,000,000–$2,499,999 Anonymous (2)
Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse
Mr. & Mrs. William Adams IV
Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck
Ann Blickensderfer and Roger Blickensderfer
Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown
Kay Bucksbaum
Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock
Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert
Michael and Kathleen Elliott
Erika Gross
Estates of Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak
Jim † and Kay Mabie
Estate of Gloria Miner
The Oberman Family Charitable Trust
Cathy and Bill Osborn
Catherine M. and Frederick H. Waddell
$500,000–$999,999
Patricia and Laurence Booth
John D. and Leslie Henner Burns
Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray
D & R Charitable Fund
The Davee Foundation
David and Janet Fox
Howard Gottlieb
ITW
Mr. & Mrs. † William R. Jentes
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley
Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg
Laura and Terrence Truax^
$250,000–$499,999
Anonymous
Ruth and Roger Anderson
Family Foundation
Wayne D. and Nancy M. Boberg
Dr. Joseph and Patricia Car
George and Minou Colis
Nancy Dehmlow
Mimi Duginger
Alice and Richard Godfrey
Jennifer Amler Goldstein, in memory of Thomas M. Goldstein
Merle L. Jacob
Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman
James and Renée Metcalf
Estate of Donald V. Peck
Sage Foundation, Melissa Sage Fadim
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.
Susan and Bob Wislow
Estate of Rita Zralek
$100,000–$249,999
Merrill and Judy Blau
William A. and Anne Goldstein
Timothy and Joyce Greening*
John Hart and Carol Prins
Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson
Mr. † & Mrs. Paul R. Judy
Judy and Scott McCue
Estate of Donald Powell
Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab
Frances and Franklin † Horwich
Ms. Geraldine Keefe
Judy and Scott McCue
Ms. Deborah K. McNeil
Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †
Andra and Irwin Press
Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy
Dr. & Mrs. Eugene and Jean Stark
Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern
Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr.
Thierer Family Foundation
Penny and John Van Horn
Craig and Bette Williams
Mr. Gifford Zimmerman
UP TO $100,000
Jeff and Keiko Alexander
Patricia Ames
Peter and Elise Barack
Roderick Branch and Brant Taylor
Ms. Vera Capp*
Charles and Carol Emmons*
Judith E. Feldman^
Mrs. Donna Fleming^
Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall
Robert D. Gecht
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg
Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab
Mr. Graham C. Grady
The Heestand Foundation
Karen and Neil Kawashima
Ms. Geraldine Keefe
Anne Kern
Tom and Betsy Kilroy
Randall S. Kroszner and David Nelson
Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg
Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin*
Mr. David E. McNeel
Mr. Robert Meeker
Dr. Sharon D. Michalove
John H. Mugge
Mr. Daniel R. Murray
Sarah and Wallace Oliver*
Mr. Eric P. Easterberg and Ms. Cindy Y. Pan*
Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein
Charlene H. Posner*
Mr. & Mrs. Jason and Kristen Rossi
James S. Rostenberg
Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †^
Ms. Courtney Shea^
Mr. † & Mrs. John Simmons*
Ms. Lynn B. Singer^
Dr. Catherine L. Webb*
Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung*
Ms. Karen Zupko*
*Commitment to the Governing Members Chair, a collective initiative to sponsor a revolving musician chair of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
^Commitment to the Women’s Board Guest Artist Endowment Fund, which will annually support the appearance of a guest artist, conductor, or composer. † Deceased
Sidley Austin LLP
Michael and Linda Simon
Liz Stiffel
$35,000–$49,999
Anonymous
Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse
Mr. Roderick Branch
Mr. & Mrs. Johannes Burlin
John D. and Leslie Henner Burns
Mr. Philip Darling
Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation
Mr. Collier Hands
Ms. Renee Metcalf
Charles Morcom
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley
Ms. Martha C. Nussbaum
Margo and Michael Oberman
Ms. Elizabeth Parker and Mr. Keith Crow
Walter and Kathleen Snodell
Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt
Helen G. and Richard L. Thomas
David and Marsha Woodhouse
Mr. Gifford Zimmerman
$25,000–$34,999
Anonymous
Nancy A. Abshire
Altair Advisers LLC
Sharon and Charles † Angell
Carey and Brett August
Peter and Elise Barack
Julie and Roger Baskes
Patricia and Laurence Booth
Robert J. Buford
Ms. Marion A. Cameron-Gray
Mr. & Dr. George Colis
Mrs. Barbara Flynn Currie
Mr. Stephen V. D’Amore
Ms. Debora de Hoyos and Mr. Walter Carlson
Ms. Ann Drake
Timothy A. and Bette Anne Duffy
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Eastwood
Mr. Daniel Fischel and Ms. Sylvia Neil
Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.
Ellen and Paul Gignilliat
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg
William A. and Anne Goldstein
Mary Louise Gorno
Howard L. Gottlieb and Barbara G. Greis
Mr. Graham C. Grady
Ms. Helen Han
Irving Harris Foundation, Joan W. Harris
Mr. & Mrs. Jay L. Henderson
Mr. John Holmes
Ronald B. Johnson
Karen and Neil Kawashima
Ms. Donna L. Kendall
Tom and Betsy Kilroy
Randall S. Kroszner and David Nelson
Susan and Rick Levy
Mr. & Mrs. Vikram Luthar
Ms. Britt Miller
Daniel R. Murray
John D. † and Alexandra C. Nichols
Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation
Dr. Mohan Rao
Diana and Bruce Rauner
Susan Regenstein
Ann and Bob † Reiland, in memory of Arthur and Ruth Koch
Melissa and Joseph Root
Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg
Mr. & Mrs. Scott Santi
Mr. John Schmidt and Dr. Janet Gilboy
Shure Charitable Trust
Bill and Orli Staley Foundation
Mary Stowell
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Sullivan
Thierer Family Foundation
TravTours, Inc.
Laura and Terrence Truax
Craig and Bette Williams
Susan and Bob Wislow
Ms. Ann Marie Wright
$20,000–$24,999
Anonymous (2)
Peter † and Betsy Barrett
Tom and Dianne Campbell
Nancy and Bernard Dunkel
Mr. & Mrs. Brian Duwe
Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans
Mary and Lionel Go
Richard and Alice Godfrey
Mary Winton Green
Halasyamani/Davis Family
Barbara and Kenneth Kaufman
Anne and John † Kern
Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family
Mr. Philip Lumpkin
Ms. Emilysue Pinnell
D. Elizabeth Price
Mr. Jeffrey J. Webb and Ms. Catherine Yung
Dr. Marylou Witz
Ronald and Geri Yonover Foundation
$15,000–$19,999
Anonymous (3)
Fraida and Bob Aland
Merrill and Judy Blau
Fred and Phoebe Boelter
Mr. & Mrs. William Gardner Brown
Henry and Gilda Buchbinder
Robert D. Carone
Joyce Chelberg
Bruce and Martha Clinton for The Clinton Family Fund
Sue and Jim Colletti
John and Fran Edwardson
Mr. & Mrs. Anthony C. Gambell
Sue and Melvin Gray
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy
Mr. & Mrs. R. Helmholz
Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Hibbard
Mr. & Mrs. David Hilliard
Janice L. Honigberg
Mrs. Janet Kanter †
Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Klein
Ms. Betsy Levin
Dr. Eva Lichtenberg and Dr. Arnold Tobin
Mr. David E. McNeel
Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery
Edward and Gayla Nieminen
Kathleen Field Orr
Bruno and Sallie Pasquinelli Family Foundation
Mr. † & Mrs. Albert Pawlick
LeAnn Pedersen Pope and Clyde F. McGregor
Mr. & Mrs. † Andrew Porte
Andra and Irwin Press
Jerry Rose
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.
Penelope R. Steiner
Carl W. Stern and Holly Hayes-Stern
Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Toft
Penny and John Van Horn
Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs
$11,500–$14,999
Anonymous
Jeff and Keiko Alexander
Ann and Richard Carr
Dr. Brenda A. Darrell and Mr. Paul S. Watford
Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan
Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng
Stephen and Maria Lans
Jim † and Kay Mabie
Dr. Maija Freimanis and David A. Marshall
The Osprey Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scholl
Leslie and Tom Silverstein
Carol S. Sonnenschein
Mr. & Mrs. Scott Swanson
Ksenia A. and Peter Turula
Caroline Foulke Wettersten
$7,500–$11,499
Anonymous (4)
Ms. Patti Acurio
Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein
Mr. Robert C. Austin and Dr. Kathryn C. Gamble
Ms. Judith Barnard
Mrs. Gail Belytschko
Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Benck
Arnie and Ann Berlin
Ms. Elizabeth Berry and Mr. Philip S. Revzin
Mr. † & Mrs. Dennis Black
Cassandra L. Book
Mr. & Mrs. John Borland
Adam Bossov
Janet S. Boyer
Mr. & Mrs. John D. Bramsen
Ms. Danolda Brennan
Mr. Ray Capitanini
Patricia A. Clickener
Dr. Thomas H. Conner
Mr. Lawrence Corry
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Demirjian
Mr. Marc DeMoss
Mr. & Mrs. William Dooley
Mimi Duginger
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Earle
Mr. Eric P. Easterberg and Ms. Cindy Y. Pan
Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Ebling III
Charles and Carol Emmons
Mr. Fred Eychaner
Judith E. Feldman
Constance M. Filling and Robert D. Hevey Jr.
Ms. Hazel Fisher
David and Janet Fox
Dr. & Mrs. James Franklin
Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman
Jeannette and Jerry Goldstone
Mr. Gerald and Dr. Colette Gordon
Richard † and Mary L. Gray
Lynne R. Haarlow
Joan M. Hall
Mrs. Richard C. Halpern
John and Sally Hard
Pati and O.J. † Heestand
Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Holson III
Fred † and Sandra Holubow
Tex and Susan Hull
Michael and Leigh Huston
Merle L. Jacob
Howard E. Jessen Family Trust
Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Keller
Ms. Librada Killian
The King Family Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. James Klenk
Dr. June Koizumi
Mr. † & Mrs. Richard K. Komarek
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Krueck
Mr. John LaBarbera
Mr. Craig Lancaster and Ms. Charlene T. Handler
Mr. Jeffrey Lennard
Mr. Michael Leppen
Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation
Mr. † & Mrs. Paul Lieberman
Mr. † & Mrs. John Lillard
Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl
Judith Partipilo Marth
Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic
Sheila Medvin
Dr. Ellen Mendelson
Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino
Mr. Frank Modruson and Ms. Lynne Shigley
Drs. Bill † and Elaine Moor
Emilie Morphew, M.D.
Ms. Susan Norvich
Mr. † & Mrs. Norman L. Olson
Jim O’Sullivan
Richard and Frances Penn
Sue N. Pick
Mary and Joseph Plauché
Harper Reed
Dr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. Rissman
Mr. & Mrs. Rich Ryan
Mr. Agustin G. Sanz
Karla Scherer
David and Judy Schiffman
Al Schriesheim and Kay Torshen
Joan and George Segal
Drs. Deborah and Lawrence Segil
Diana and Richard Senior
The Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation
Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho
Julia M. Simpson
Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro
Dr. Stuart Sondheimer, M.D. and Ms. Bonnie Lucas
Cheryl Sturm
Mr. & Mrs. † Louis Sudler, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Taubeneck
Ms. Carla M. Thorpe
Mr. David J. Varnerin
Rebecca West
M.L. Winburn
Michael H. and Mary K. Woolever
Mr. & Mrs. John Wulfers
$4,500–$7,499 Anonymous (11)
Elaine and Floyd Abramson
Sandra Allen and Jim Perlow
Mr. & Mrs. Gary Allie
Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Alsaker
Cat Anderson
Megan P. and John L. Anderson
Cushman L. and Pamela Andrews
Dr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Eva Redei
David and Suzanne Arch
Dr. & Mrs. Kent Armbruster
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Baird
Paul and Robert Barker Foundation
Mr. Merrill and Mr. N.M.K. Barnes
Joseph Bartush
Sandra Bass
Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni † and Elaine Klemen
Cynthia Bates and Kevin Rock †
Deborah Baughman
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Bedford
Mr. Ken Belcher
Mr. & Mrs. D. Theodore Berghorst
Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible
Mrs. Arthur A. Billings
Mr. & Mrs. Harrington Bischof
Jim † and Dianne Blanco
Ann Blickensderfer
Ms. Terry Boden
Mr. Edward Boehm III
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Borich
Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky
Mr. Donald Bouseman
Ms. Jill Brennan
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Breu
Cindy Marie Brito and Anthony Costello
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Bryan
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Buchsbaum
Elizabeth Nolan and Kevin Buzard
Ms. Lutgart Calcote
Ms. Vera Capp
Wendy Alders Cartland
Mia Celano and Noel Dunn
Mr. & Mrs. Candelario Celio
Margery al Chalabi
Mr. James Chamberlain
Linton J. Childs
Ms. Jue H. Chung
Jan and Frank Cicero, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Clancy
Nancy J. Clawson
Mitchell Cobey and Janet Reali
Ms. Jean Cocozza
David Colburn
Jane B. Colman
E. and V. Combs Foundation
Peter and Beverly Ann Conroy
Mrs. Taylor Corbitt and Mr. Christopher Sweeney
Jenny L. Corley in memory of Dr. W. Gene Corley
Nancy R. Corral
Mari Hatzenbuehler Craven
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cremieux
R. Bert Crossland
Daniel Cyganowski and Judith Metzger
Dr. & Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta
Decyk Watts Charitable Foundation
Duane M. DesParte and John C. Schneider
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph DiBello
Janet Wood Diederichs
Mr. William Dietz, Jr.
Mr. Doug Donenfeld
David and Deborah Dranove
Ingrid and Richard Dubberke
Judge Frank Easterbrook
Mr. & Mrs. Larry K. Ebert
Mr. & Mrs. Estia Eichten
Jon Ekdahl and Marcia Opp
Thomas Eller
Mr. Matthew Ellison
Mr. & Mrs. Victor Elting III
Scott and Lenore Enloe
Dr. & Mrs. † James Ertle
William Escamilla
Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D.
Neil Fackler
Jeffrey Farbman and Ann Greenstein
Hector Ferral, M.D.
John and Geraldine Fiedler
Dr. & Mrs. Sanford Finkel, in honor of Robert Coad
Mr. Conrad Fischer
Dean and Jenny Fischer
Thea Flaum/Hill Foundation
Mrs. John D. Foster
Arthur L. Frank, M.D.
Mr. & Mrs. Willard Fraumann
Susan and Paul Freehling
Judy and Mickey Gaynor
Robert D. Gecht
Sandy and Frank Gelber
Rabbi Gary S. Gerson and Dr. Carol R. Gerson
Bernardino and Caterina Ghetti
Camillo and Arlene Ghiron
Ms. Karen Gianfrancisco
Mr. † & Mrs. James J. Glasser
Judy and Bill Goldberg
Lyn Goldstein
Robert and Marcia Goltermann
Mary and Michael Goodkind
Mrs. Amy G. Gordon and Mr. Michael D. Gordon
Mr. Peter Gotsch and Dr. Jana French
Donald J. Gralen
Hanna H. Gray
Ms. Freddi Greenberg
Thomas † and Delta Greene
Timothy and Joyce Greening
Dr. Jerri E. Greer
Dr. Katherine L. Griem
Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Groen
Jacalyn Gronek
Ann and John Grube
Mr. Dongqi Guo
Anastasia and Gary † Gutting
Stephanie and Howard Halpern
Anne Marcus Hamada
Ms. Josephine Hammer
Mrs. John M. Hartigan
Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Hassan
James W. Haugh
Thomas and Connie Hsu Haynes
James and Lynne † Heckman
Mr. Hirad Hedayat
Mr. Dale C. Hedding
Scott Helm
Ms. Dawn E. Helwig
Dr. † & Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst
Marjorie Friedman Heyman
The Hickey Family Foundation
William B. Hinchliff
Suzanne Hoffman and Dale Smith †
James and Eileen Holzhauer
James † and Mary Houston
Hunter Family Foundation
Ms. Patricia Hurley
Frances and Phillip Huscher
Leland E. Hutchinson and Jean E. Perkins
Mr. & Mrs. Jorge Iorgulescu
Ian and Valerie Jacobs
Mrs. Nancy Witte Jacobs
Mr. & Mrs. Stan Jakopin
Dr. & Mrs. Todd and Peggy Janus
Mr. John Jawor
Ms. Justine Jentes and Mr. Dan Kuruna
Mr. & Mrs. † George E. Johnson
Dr. & Mrs. Hulon Johnson
Dr. Patricia Collins Jones
Mr. † & Mrs. Saul Kadin
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Kaplan/ Kaplan Foundation
Jared Kaplan † and Maridee Quanbeck
Mr. James Kastenholz and Ms. Jennifer Steans
Barry D. Kaufman
Larry † and Marie Kaufman
Don Kaul and Barbara Bluhm-Kaul
Peter and Stephanie Keehn
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Keiser
Mr. & Mrs. Gene Kiesel
Mr. Thomas Kmetko
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Knauff
Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin
Cookie Anspach Kohn and Henry L. Kohn
Kovler Family Foundation
Dr. & Mrs. Mark Kozloff
Eldon and Patricia Kreider
Drs. Vinay and Raminder Kumar
Dr. Lynda Lane
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Langrehr
Mr. William Lawlor, III
Drs. Anu and Ali Leemann
Dean and Rebecca Leff
Sheila Fields Leiter
Ms. Zafra Lerman
Mr. Jerrold Levine
Averill and Bernard † Leviton
Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. Strek
Mr † and Mrs. Howard Lickerman
Jane and Peter Loeb
The Loewenthal Fund at The Chicago Community Trust
Mrs. Gabrielle Long
Dr. Anna Lysakowski
Jacen Maleck
Dr. & Mrs. Michael S. Maling
Francine R. Manilow
Sharon L. Manuel
Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Martin
Arthur and Elizabeth Martinez
Ms. BeLinda Mathie and Dr. Brian Haag
Charles and Clara McCall
Ann Pickard McDermott
Dr. & Mrs. James McGee
Dr. † & Mrs. John McGee II
John and Etta McKenna
Dr. & Mrs. Peter McKinney
James Edward McPherson and David Lee Murray †
Leoni Zverow McVey and Bill McVey
Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc.
Jim and Ginger Meyer
Mr. Llewellyn Miller and Ms. Cecilia Conrad
Stephen and Rumi Morales
Mrs. Frank Morrissey
Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek
John H. Mugge
Mr. † & Mrs. Kenneth Nebenzahl
Mr. † & Mrs. William Neiman
David † and Dolores Nelson
Mr. & Mrs. † Richard Nopar
Kenneth R. Norgan
Mark and Gloria Nusbaum
Bill and Penny Obenshain
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ochs
Eric and Carolyn Oesterle
Sarah and Wallace Oliver
John and Joy O’Malley
Mr. Michael Oman and Mrs. Patricia Wakeley
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Ostermann
Mr. Timothy J. Patenode
Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Michael Payette
Dr. & Mrs † Ray Pensinger
Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein
Dr. William Peruzzi
Mr. Robert Peterson
Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Dale R. Pinkert
Lee Ann and Savit Pirl
Harvey and Madeleine Plonsker
Naomi Pollock and David Sneider
Charlene H. Posner
Stephen and Ann Suker Potter
Mrs. Mary Jo Potts and Mr. Jim Selsor
John and Merry Ann Pratt
Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard
Ms. Elizabeth R. B. Pruett
Mrs. Lynda Rahal
Dr. Hilda Richards
Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards
Charles and Marilynn Rivkin
Ms. Carol Roberts
William and Cheryl Roberts
Dr. Diana Robin
Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen
Mr. John W. Rogers, Jr.
Kevin M. Rooney and Daniel P. Vicencio
Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Roper
Mr. & Mrs. Saul Rosen
Michael Rosenthal
D.D. Roskin
Ms. Lisa Ross
Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Rossi
Maija Rothenberg
Helen and Marc Rubenstein
Ms. Roberta H. Rubin
Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz
Anthony Saineghi
Mr. David Sandfort
Ms. Kay Schichtel and Mr. Barry Lesht
Mr † and Mrs. Nathan Schloss
Susan H. Schwartz
Donald L. and Susan J. Schwartz
Scott Byron & Co.
Mr. & Mrs. Chandra Sekhar
David and Judith L. Sensibar
Dr. & Mrs. James C. Sheinin
Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts
Mrs. Junia Shlaustas
Mr. & Ms. Alan Shoenberger
Stuart and Leslie Shulruff
Alan and Margaret Silberman
Ms. Ann Silberman
Mr. † & Mrs. John Simmons
Mr. Larry Simpson
Lynn B. Singer
Craig Sirles
Valerie Slotnick
Mrs. Jackson W. Smart, Jr.
Louise K. Smith
Mary Ann Smith
James and Diane Snyder
In memory of Timothy Soleiman
Elysia M. Solomon
Mrs. Linda Spain
Robert and Emily Spoerri
Helena Stancikas
Ms. Denise Stauder
Mr. & Mrs. Leonidas Stefanos
Dr. Dusan Stefoski, M.D. and Mr. Craig Savage
Carol D. Stein
Roger † and Susan Stone
Family Foundation
Ms. Donna L. Strand
Lawrence E. Strickling and Sydney L. Hans
Ms. Minsook Suh
Mr. Mitchell Suter and Ms. Hillary August
Mr. Chris Thomas
Mr. James Thompson
David and Beth Timm
Bill and Anne Tobey
Ayana Tomeka
Bruce † and Jan Tranen
James M. and Carol Trapp
John T. and Carrie M. Travers
Joan and David Trushin
Dr. & Mrs. David Turner
Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Turner
Ms. Judith Tuszynski
Zalman and Karen Usiskin
Mr. Peter Vale
Jim and Cindy Valtman
Thomas D. Vander Veen, Ph.D.
Frances S. Vandervoort
Mr. † & Mrs. Peter E. Van Nice
Henrietta Vepstas
Ms. Jennifer Vianello
Dr. Michael Viglione
Catherine M. Villinski
Charles Vincent
Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Wagner
Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Wall
Dr. Catherine L. Webb
Mr. † & Mrs. Jacob Weglarz
Mr. & Mrs. Joel Weisman
Mr. Louis Weiss
Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Weiss
Marc Weissbluth in memory of Linda Weissbluth
Carmen and Allen Wheatcroft
Peter and Marlee Wolf
Michael † and Laura Woll
Mr. Joseph Wolnski and Ms. Jane Christino
Dr. Hak Wong
Courtenay R. Wood and H. Noel Jackson, Jr.
Ms. Debbie Wright
Mari Yamamoto Regnier
Ms. Janice Young
Owen and Linda Youngman
David and Eileen Zampa
Dr. & Mrs. John Zaremba
Gerald Zimmerman and Margarete Gross
Ms. Karen Zupko
$3,500–$4,499
Anonymous
Ms. Rene Alphonse
Mrs. Barbara Asner
Ms. Marlene Bach
Dr. & Mrs. Gustavo Bermudez
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Block
Drs. Virginia and Stephen Carr
Ms. Anne Chien
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Clusen
Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel
Joe and Judy Cosenza
Mr. † & Mrs. Robert J. Darnall
Ms. Louise Dixon
Mr. & Mrs. Otto Doering III
Ms. Sarah Good
Hill and Cheryl Hammock
Dr. Robert A. Harris
Ms. Anna Hertsberg
Ms. JoAnn Joyce
Ms. Ethelle Katz
Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy Klemt
Dr. Michael Krco
Mr. Laurance C. Martin
Margaret and Michael McCoy
Ms. Claretta Meier
Miss Marija Michalczyk
Catherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr.
Noteable Notes Music Academy/ Wheaton, IL
Mr. Bruce Ottley
Rita Petretti
Mary Rafferty
Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Schnadig
Gerald and Barbara Schultz
Dr. & Mrs. Mark C. Shields
Jack and Barbara Simon
Joel and Beth Spenadel
Laurence and Caryn Straus
Ms. Joanne Tremulis
Eric Vaang
Hilary and Barry Weinstein
Ms. Lois Wolff
Ms. Mary Zeltmann
Ms. Camille Zientek
Mike Zimmerman
2,500–$3,499
Anonymous (4)
Mr. Frank Ackerman
Dr. & Mrs. Carl H. Albright
Mrs. Evelyn Alter
Catherine Baker and Timothy Kent
Connor Ballgae
Larry and Sarah Barden
Ms. Barbara Barzansky
Ms. Patricia Bayerlein
Meta S. and Ronald † Berger
Family Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Eric Brandfonbrener
Chris Brezil
Ms. Susan Bridge
Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman
Linda S. Buckley
Mr. & Mrs. John Butler
Curtis W. Cassel
Ms. Margaret Chaplan †
Lisa Chessare
Ms. Melinda Cheung
Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes
Mr. Robert Cook
Ms. Juli Crabtree
Mr. John Crosby
Mr. Frank R. Davis III
Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker
Mr. Matthew Denk
Mr. & Mrs. James W. DeYoung
Mrs. Kelli Gardner Emery † and Mr. Peter Emery
Debra Fienberg
Sandra E. Fienberg
Mrs. Donna Fleming
Ms. Nona Flores
Leo and Kim Flynn
Ms. Irene Fox
Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Paterson
Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd A. Fry III
James and Rebecca Gaebe
Jane Gaines and Andy Kenoe
Ms. Nancy Garfien
Mr. Stanford Goldblatt
Isabelle Goossen
Merle Gordon
Dr. & Mrs. Alan Graham
Mr. & Mrs. Byron Gregory
Mr. Adam Grymkowski
Suzanne Hales
Ronald and Diane Hamburger
Dr. & Mrs. Chester Handelman
Grant P. Haugen
Mr. † & Mrs. Robert Heidrick
Ms. Nancy Hess
James and Megan Hinchsliff
Ms. Gretchen Hoffmann and Mr. Joseph Doherty
Dr. & Mrs. James Holland
Mr. Stephen Holmes
Mr. Harry Hunderman and Ms. Deborah Slaton
Dr. Victoria Ingram and Dr. Paul Navin
Joshua and Faye Jacobs
Ms. Kathleen Jordan
Daniel P. and Barbara J. Justus
Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan
Mr. Thomas Lad
Ms. Pamela Larsen
Jules M. Laser
Ms. Leah Laurie
Dona Le Blanc
Mr. Jonathon Leik
Mr. Philip Lesser
Sherry and Mel Lopata
Ronald and Carlotta Lucchesi
Ms. Janice Magnuson
Mr. Timothy Marshall
Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Mass
Igor and Olga Matlin
Mr. Donald P. Maves
Ms. Marilyn Mccoy
Rosa and Peter McCullagh
Bill McIntosh
Mr. Zarin Mehta
Ms. Maryrose Murphy
Mr. † & Mrs. Herbert Neil, Jr.
Mrs. Janis Notz
Dr. Linda Novak
Kingsley Perkins †
Mrs. Victorina Peterson
Mr. † & Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn
Richard Phillips
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper
Dr. Susan Rabe
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Racker
Ms. Constance Rajala
Dr. & Mrs. Don Randel
Mr. Jeffrey Rappin
Neal Reenan
Patricia Richter
Dr. Anita Robbins
Dr. & Mrs. Melvin Roseman
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Ross
Mrs. Martha Sabransky † and Dr. Paul Glickman
Rita † and Norman Sackar
JF Sarwark, M.D.
Susan Schaalman Youdovin and Charlie Shulkin
Shirley and John † Schlossman
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza
Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott
Mary and Charles M. † Shea
Carolyn M. Short
Mr. † & Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein
Mr. Michael Sprinker
Carole Stone and Arthur Susman
Mr. & Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr.
Barry and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Mr. † & Mrs. Richard Taft
Ms. Alison Thomas
Margaret Trumbull
Mr. John Turner
Mr. & Mrs. Allan Vagner
Ms. Ellen Werner
Mr. Eric Wicks and Ms. Linda Baker
Robert J. Wilczek † and Shirley Pfenning
Mr. Kenneth Witkowski
Barbara and Steven Wolf
Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Negaunee Music Institute connects individuals and communities to the extraordinary musical resources of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The following donors are gratefully acknowledged for making a gift in support of these educational and engagement programs. To make a gift or learn more, please contact Kevin Gupana, Associate Director of Giving, Educational and Engagement Programs, 312-294-3156.
$150,000 AND ABOVE
Lori Julian for The Julian Family Foundation
The Negaunee Foundation
$100,000–$149,999
Abbott Fund
Allstate Insurance Company
Megan and Steve Shebik
$75,000–$99,999
John Hart and Carol Prins
Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation
$50,000–$74,999
Anonymous
BMO
Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
Judy and Scott McCue
Ms. Deborah K. McNeil
Polk Bros. Foundation
Michael and Linda Simon
Lisa and Paul Wiggin
$35,000–$49,999
Bowman C. Lingle Trust
National Endowment for the Arts
$25,000–$34,999
Anonymous
Carey and Brett August
Crain-Maling Foundation
Nancy Dehmlow
Kinder Morgan
Margo and Michael Oberman
Ms. Cecelia Samans
Shure Charitable Trust
Gene and Jean Stark
$20,000–$24,999
Anonymous
Mary and Lionel Go
Halasyamani/Davis Family
Illinois Arts Council
Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family
Mr. Philip Lumpkin
PNC
D. Elizabeth Price
Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation
The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc.
$15,000–$19,999
Nancy A. Abshire
Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc.
Sue and Jim Colletti
The Maval Foundation
Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr. †
Dr. Marylou Witz
$11,500–$14,999
Barker Welfare Foundation
Mr. † & Mrs. David A. Donovan
Nancy and Bernard Dunkel
Benjamin J. Rosenthal Foundation
Ksenia A. and Peter Turula
$7,500–$11,499
Anonymous
Robert H. Baum and MaryBeth Kretz
Fred and Phoebe Boelter
The Buchanan Family Foundation
John D. and Leslie Henner Burns
Mr. Lawrence Corry
Mrs. Carol Evans, in memory of Henry Evans
Ellen and Paul Gignilliat
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Glossberg
Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab
Mary Winton Green
The League of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association
Mr. Glen Madeja and Ms. Janet Steidl
Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino
Ms. Susan Norvich
Ms. Emilysue Pinnell
Mary and Joseph Plauché
Ms. Liisa M. Thomas and Mr. Stephen L. Pratt
Theodore and Elisabeth Wachs
$4,500–$7,499
Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse
Charles H. and Bertha L. Boothroyd Foundation
Ann and Richard Carr
Harry F. and Elaine Chaddick Foundation
Ms. Dawn E. Helwig
Mr. James Kastenholz and Ms. Jennifer Steans
Dr. June Koizumi
Leoni Zverow McVey and Bill McVey
Jim and Ginger Meyer
Stephen and Rumi Morales
Drs. Robert and Marsha Mrtek
The Osprey Foundation
Lee Ann and Savit Pirl
Robert J. Richards and Barbara A. Richards
Dr. Scholl Foundation
Laura and Terrence Truax
Mr. Paul R. Wiggin
$3,500–$4,499
Anonymous (2)
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Clusen
Mr. Clinton J. Ecker and Ms. Jacqui Cheng
Charles and Carol Emmons
Judith E. Feldman
Ms. Mirjana Martich and Mr. Zoran Lazarevic
$2,500–$3,499
Anonymous
David and Suzanne Arch
Adam Bossov
Mr. Ray Capitanini
Lisa Chessare
Mr. Ricardo Cifuentes
Patricia A. Clickener
Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Decker
David and Janet Fox
Mr. † & Mrs. Robert Heidrick
William B. Hinchliff
Michael and Leigh Huston
Dr. Victoria Ingram and Dr. Paul Navin
David † and Dolores Nelson
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Piper
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Racker
Erik and Nelleke Roffelsen
Mr. David Sandfort
Gerald and Barbara Schultz
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Scorza
Jessie Shih and Johnson Ho
Dr. & Mrs. R. Solaro
Carol S. Sonnenschein
Mr. † & Mrs. Hugo Sonnenschein
Ms. Joanne C. Tremulis
Mr. Peter Vale
Mr. Kenneth Witkowski
Ms. Camille Zientek
$1,500–$2,499
John Albrecht
Mr. Edward Amrein, Jr. and Mrs. Sara Jones-Amrein
Ms. Marlene Bach
Ms. Barbara Barzansky
Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bible
Cassandra L. Book
Mr. James Borkman
Mr. Donald Bouseman
Ms. Danolda Brennan
Mr. Lee M. Brown and Ms. Pixie Newman
Darren Cahr
Ms. Sharon Eiseman
Mr. Conrad Fischer
Ms. Lola Flamm
Camillo and Arlene Ghiron
Merle L. Jacob
Mr. & Mrs. Norman Koglin
Dona Le Blanc
Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery
Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Murley
Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.
Susan Rabe
Mrs. Rebecca Schewe
Jane A. Shapiro
Mr. Larry Simpson
Mr. Thomas Simpson
Mrs. Julie Stagliano
Michael and Salme Steinberg
Walter and Caroline Sueske
Charitable Trust
Ayana Tomeka
Ms. Betty Vandenbosch
Dr. Douglas Vaughan
Ms. Mary Walsh
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Waxman
Abby and Glen Weisberg
Irene Ziaya and Paul Chaitkin
$1,000–$1,499 Anonymous
In memory of Martha and Bernie Adelson
Ms. Rochelle Allen
Altair Advisers LLC
Ms. Margaret Amato
Allen and Laura Ashley
Tom Auchter
Howard and Donna Bass
Paul Becker and Nancy Becker
Ann Blickensderfer
Dr. Martin Burke
Ms. Gwendolyn Butler
Mr. Mark Carroll
Mr. Rowland Chang
Dr. Edward A. Cole and Dr. Christine A. Rydel
Mr. & Mrs. Bill Cottle
Alan R. Cravitz
Ms. Pamela Crutchfield
Tom Draski
DS&P Insurance Services, Inc.
Mr. Edward and Nancy Eichelberger
Neil Fackler
Mr. & Mrs. Roger Gallentine
Ms. Nancy Garfien
Alan and Nancy Goldberg
Dr. Fred Halloran
Mrs. Susan Hammond
Dr. Robert A. Harris
Holy Trinity High School
Mr. Ray Jones
Charles Katzenmeyer
Randolph T. Kohler and Scott Gordan
Howard Korey and Sharon Pomerantz
The Lee Family
Mr. † & Mrs. Gerald F. Loftus
Timothy Lubenow
Sharon L. Manuel
Jacqueline Mardell
Rosa and Peter McCullagh
Stephen W. and Kathleen J. Miller
Geoffrey R. Morgan
Mrs. MaryLouise Morrison
Ms. Sylvette Nicolini
Edward and Gayla Nieminen
Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer
Mr. † & Mrs. James Norr
Mr. & Mrs. Julian Oettinger
Mr. Bruce Oltman
Ms. Joan Pantsios
Christine and Michael Pope
Quinlan & Fabish Music Company
Mr. George Quinlan
Dr. Hilda Richards
Dr. Edward Riley
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rosenberg
Mr. David Samson
Mr. & Mrs. Steve Schuette
Stephen A. and Marilyn Scott
Drs. Deborah and Lawrence Segil
Christina Shaver
Dr. Sabine Sobek
Ms. Adena Staben
Ms. Denise Stauder
Mrs. Pamela Stepansky
Sharon Swanson
Ms. Cynthia Vahlkamp and Mr. Robert Kenyon
Mr. David J. Varnerin
Mr. Eric Wicks and Ms. Linda Baker
Joni Williams
Jane Stroud Wright
ENDOWED FUNDS
Anonymous (5)
Dr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Adelson Fund
Marjorie Blum-Kovler Youth Concert Fund
Civic Orchestra Chamber Access Fund
The Davee Foundation
Frank Family Fund
Kelli Gardner Youth Education Endowment Fund
Jennifer Amler Goldstein Fund, in memory of Thomas M. Goldstein
Mary Winton Green
John Hart and Carol Prins Fund for Access
William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fund
Richard A. Heise
Julian Family Foundation Fund
The Kapnick Family
Lester B. Knight Charitable Trust
Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Chair Fund
The Malott Family School Concerts Fund
Eloise W. Martin Endowed Funds
Murley Family Fund
The Negaunee Foundation
Margo and Michael Oberman Community Access Fund
Nancy Ranney and Family and Friends
Helen Regenstein Guest Conductor Fund
Edward F. Schmidt Family Fund
Shebik Community Engagement Programs Fund
The Wallace Foundation
Zell Family Foundation
Theodore Thomas Society
Mary Louise Gorno Chair
Listed below are generous donors who have made commitments to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through their wills, trusts, and other estate plans, including life-income arrangements, as of August 2024. The Society honors their generosity, which helps to ensure the long-term financial stability and artistic excellence of the CSOA. To learn more, please contact Al Andreychuk, Director of Endowment Gifts and Planned Giving, at 312-294-3150.
STRADIVARIAN ASSOCIATES
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is pleased to recognize the following individuals for generously establishing a legacy bequest plan of $100,000 or more to benefit the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.
Anonymous (11)
Dora J. and R. John Aalbregtse
Lisa J. Adelstein
Jeff and Keiko Alexander
Evy Johansen Alsaker
Robert A. Alsaker
Geoffrey A. Anderson
Louise E. Anderson
Brett and Carey August
Marlene Bach
Dr. Jeff Bale
Mr. Neal Ball
Mr. & Mrs. Randy Barba
Sally J. Becker
Marlys A. Beider
Dr. C. Bekerman
Martha Bell
Mike and Donna Bell
Julie Ann Benson
K. Richard and Patricia M. Berlet
Merrill and Judy Blau
Dr. Phyllis C. Bleck
Ann Blickensderfer
Roger Blickensderfer
Wayne D. and Nancy M. Boberg
Danolda Brennan
Mr. Leon Brenner, Jr.
Mitchell J. Brown
Marion A. Cameron-Gray
Charles Capwell and Isabel Wong
Mr. Frank and Dr. Vera Clark
Patricia A. Clickener
Judith and Stephen F. Condren
Anita Crocus
David L. Curry
Mimi Duginger
Harry and Jean Eisenman
Michael and Kathleen Elliott
Dr. Marilyn Ezri
David S. and Janet M. Fox
Mr. & Mrs. David W. Fox, Sr.
Allen J. Frantzen and George R. Paterson
Mary J. and Ronald P. Frelk
Penny and John Freund
Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Gignilliat
Merle Gordon
Mary Louise Gorno
Dr. & Mrs. David Granato
Mary L. Gray
Mary Winton Green
Dr. Jon Brian Greis
John and Patricia Hamilton
Mr. Michael Hansen and Ms. Nancy Randa
John Hart and Carol Prins
Mr. William P. Hauworth II
Thomas and Linda Heagy
Mr. R.H. Helmholz
Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder
Concordia Hoffmann
Stephen D. and Catherine N. Holmes
Frank and Helen Holt
Mark and Elizabeth Hurley
Frances and Phillip Huscher
Merle L. Jacob
Ms. Darlene Johnson
Ronald B. Johnson
Roy A. and Sarah C. Johnson
Mary Ann Judy
Lori Julian
Wayne S. and Lenore M. Kaplan
Howard Kaspin
James Kemmerer
Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett
Edwin and Karen Kramer
Mr. & Mrs. Alan Kubicka
Jonathon Leik
Charles Ashby Lewis and Penny Bender Sebring
Robert Alan Lewis
Dr. Valerie Lober
Glen J. Madeja and Janet Steidl
Sheldon H. Marcus
James Edward McPherson
Janet L. Melk
Dr. Frederick K. Merkel
Dr. Leo and Catherine Miserendino
Drs. Elaine and Bill † Moor
Craig and Rose Moore
Mrs. Mario A. Munoz
John H. Nelson
Edward A. and Gayla S. Nieminen
Ms. Kathy Nordmeyer
Diane Ososke
Dr. Joan E. Patterson
Mary T. † and David R. Pfleger
Mrs. Thomas D. Philipsborn
Judy Pomeranz
Christoph G. Ptack Legacy Trust
Maridee Quanbeck
Neil K. Quinn
Randall and Cara Rademaker
Constance A. Rajala
Al and Lynn Reichle
Ann and Bob † Reiland
Wendy Reynes
Dr. Edward O. Riley
Daniel J. Riordan, in loving memory of Lynne D. Mapes-Riordan
Charles and Marilynn Rivkin
David and Kathy Robin
Jerry Rose
Mr. James S. Rostenberg
Richard O. Ryan
John A. Salkowski
Cecelia Samans
A. Wm. Samuel
Franklin Schmidt
Mr. Craig Sirles
Betty W. Smykal
Annette and Richard Steinke
Mrs. Deborah Sterling
Mr. & Mrs. William H. Strong
Mrs. Gloria B. Telander
Karin and Alfred Tenny
Richard and Helen Thomas
Ms. Carla M. Thorpe
Dr. Richard Tresley
Laura and Terrence Truax
John L. and Dyanne L. Turner
Paula Turner
Robert W. Turner and Gloria B. Turner
Judith and Paul Tuszynski
Mr. & Mrs. John E. Van Horn
Mr. Christian Vinyard
Craig and Bette Williams
Florence Winters
Stephen R. Winters and Don D. Curtis
Dr. Robert G. Zadylak
Helen Zell
MEMBERS
Anonymous (36)
Valerie and Joseph Abel
Louise Abrahams
Richard J. Abram and Paul Chandler
Patrick Alden
Richard and Elynne Aleskow
Judy L. Allen
Carlos Almeida and Dr. Matthew Sweeney
Ann S. Alpert
Patricia Ames
Ms. Judith L. Anderson
Steven Andes, Ph.D.
Barbara Andrews
Dr. Edward L. Applebaum
Catherine Aranyi
Dr. Susan Arjmand
Mara Mills Barker
Shirley Baron
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Beatty
Joan I. Berger
Robert M. Berger
Mr. & Mrs. James Borovsky
John L. Browar
Catherine Brubaker
Joseph Buc
Edward J. Buckbee
Michelle Miller Burns
Mr. Robert J. Callahan
Dr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Car
Mr. & Mrs. William P. Carmichael
Dr. Marlene E. Casiano
Beverly Ann and Peter Conroy
Sharon Conway
Ron and Dolores Daly
Mr. & Mrs. John Daniels
Mr. & Mrs. Clyde H. Dawson
Sylvia Samuels Delman
Mrs. David A. DeMar
Ms. Phyllis Diamond
Janet Wood Diederichs
Mrs. William Dooley
Nancy Schroeder Ebert
Robert J. Elisberg
Richard Elledge
Charles and Carol Emmons
Lu and Philip Engel
Tarek and Ann Fadel
James B. Fadim
Leslie Farrell
Donna Feldman
Judith E. Feldman
Frances and Henry Fogel
Ray Frick
Susan Fuchs
Nancy and Larry † Fuller
Dileep Gangolli
Maurice Garnier
Miss Elizabeth Gatz
Dr. & Mrs. Mark Gendleman
Margaret and Patrick Ghielmetti
Steve and Lauran Gilbreath
Mr. Daniel Gilmour, III
Mr. Joseph Glossberg
Ms. Georgean Goldenberg
Adele Goldsmith
Douglas Ross Gortner
Chet Gougis and Shelley Ochab
Ms. Elizabeth A. Gray
Ms. Claire Annette Green
Delta A. Greene
Mrs. Barbara Gundrum
Lynne R. Haarlow
Mrs. Robin Tieken Hadley
Mr. Tom Hall
Mr. & Mrs. Tom Hallett
William B. Hinchliff
Marcia M. Hochberg
Mr. Thomas Hochman
Jack and Colleen Holmbeck
Richard J. Hoskins
Mary Houston
Mr. James Humphrey
Ms. Jessica Jagielnik
Ansuk Jeong
Nathan Kahn, in memory of Zave H. Gussin and in honor of Robert Gussin
Ann B. Kaplan
Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Kaufman
Valerie Kennedy
Anne Kern
Paul Keske
Helen Kessler
Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Klapperich, Jr.
Mrs. LeRoy Klemt
Sally Jo Knowles
Mrs. Russell V. Kohr
Ms. Barbara Kopsian
Liesel E. Kossmann
Catherine Grochowski Kranz
Eugene Kraus
John C. and Carol Anderson Kunze
Thomas and Annelise Lawson
Dr. & Mrs. David J. Leehey
Ms. Nicole Lehman
Barbara W. Levin
Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Levy
Ms. Sally Lewis
Dr. Eva F. Lichtenberg
Mr. Michael Licitra
Dr. & Mrs. Philip R. Liebson
Bonnie Glazier Lipe
Alma Lizcano
Candace Loftus
Heidi Lukas and Mr. Charles Grode
Suzette and James Mahneke
Ann Chassin Mallow
Sharon L. Manuel
Mrs. John J. Markham
Deborah McCabe
Judy and Scott McCue
John McFerrin
Mr. William McIntosh
Leoni Zverow McVey and Bill McVey
Dorothe Melamed
Marcia Melamed
Dr. Sharon D. Michalove
Dale and Susan Miller
Michael Miller and Sheila Naughten
Virginia K. Moore
John H. Mugge
Thomas R. Mullaney
Daniel R. Murray
Dolores D. Nelson
Jeffrey Nichols
Franklin Nussbaum
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oliver, Jr.
Wallace and Sarah Oliver
Lynn Orschel
Helen and Joseph Page
Dianne M. and Robert J. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Perlstein
Elizabeth Anne Peters
Mr. Lewis D. Petry
Judy C. Petty
Karen and Dick Pigott
Lois Polakoff
Charlene H. Posner
D. Elizabeth Price
Dorothy V. Ramm
Donald F. Ransford
Jeanne Reed
Edgar C. Reihl
Ms. Oksana Revenko-Jones
Karen L. Rigotti
Don and Sally Roberts
Mrs. Ben J. Rosenthal
Dr. Virginia C. Saft
Craig Samuels
Sue and William Samuels
Leslie A. Sanders
Paul and Kathleen Schaefer
Lawrence D. Schectman
Mr. Douglas M. Schmidt
Mr. & Mrs. Myron D. Shapiro
David Shayne
Thomas C. Sheffield, Jr.
Anne Sibley
Larry Simpson
Ms. Lynn B. Singer
Thomas G. Sinkovic
Rosalee Slepian
Mary Soleiman
Jim Spiegel
Julie Stagliano
Denise M. Stauder
Karen Steil
Charles Steinberg
Timothy and Kathleen Stockdale
Mr. John Stokes
Richard and Lois Stuckey
Mark Swanson and Nancy Pifer
Jeffrey and Linda Swoger
Mr. John C. Telander
Liisa Thomas
Mr. & Mrs. Jerald Thorson
Karen Hletko Tiersky
Myron Tiersky
Jacqueline A. Tilles
Mr. James M. Trapp
Mr. Donn N. Trautman
Mike and Mary Valeanu
Gerrit Vanderwest
Mr. David J. Varnerin
Frank Villella
Mr. Milan Vydareny
Dr. Malcolm Vye
Adam R. Walker and BettyAnn Mocek
Mr. Frank Walschlager
Louella Krueger Ward
Dr. Catherine L. Webb
Karl Wechter
Claude M. Weil
Joan Weiss
Mr. Thomas Weyland
Lisa and Paul Wiggin
Linda and Payson S. Wild
Joyce S. Wildman
Kayla Anne Wilson
Robert A. Wilson
Nora M. Winsberg
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Wolf
Beth Wollar
Lev Yaroslavskiy
IN MEMORIAM
Listed below are individuals who were Theodore Thomas Society members or patrons who made exceptional commitments to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through their estates. They are remembered with gratitude for their generosity and visionary support.
Anonymous (10)
Hope A. Abelson
Richard Abrahams
Ruth T. and Roger A. Anderson
Ross C. Anderson
Mychal P. and Dorothy A. Angelos
Elizabeth M. Ashton
Jacqueline and Frank Ball
Wayne Balmer
Paul Barker
Arlene and Marshall Bennett
Judith and Dennis Bober
Naomi T. Borwell
Howard Broecker
Claresa Forbes Meyer Brown
George and Jacqueline Brumlik
Dr. Mary Louise Hirsch Burger
Norma Cadieu
Wiley Caldwell
David W. Carpenter
James D. Compton
Nelson D. Cornelius
Anita J. Court, Ph.D.
Christopher L. Culp
Azile Dick
James F. Drennan
Robert L. Drinan, Jr.
Evelyn Dyba
Richard Eastline
Marian Edelstein
Dr. Edward Elisberg
Kelli Gardner Emery
Joseph R. Ender
Shirley L. and Robert Ettelson
Greta Wiley Flory
Leslie Fogel
Herbert and Betty Forman
Richard Foster
Elaine S. Frank
Martin and Francey Gecht
Isak Gerson
Mrs. Willard Gidwitz
Lyle Gillman
Marvin Goldsmith
William B. Graham
Richard Gray
David Green
Nancy Griffin
Ernest A. Grunsfeld III
Betty and Lester Guttman
A. William Haarlow III
Carolyn Hallman
CAPT Martin P. Hanson, USN Ret.
Polly and Donald Heinrich
Mary Mako Helbert
Adolph “Bud” and Avis Herseth
Mrs. Diane Hoban
James Houston
Helen and Michael L. Igoe, Jr.
Barbara Isserman
Joseph and Rebecca Jarabak
Mrs. Marian Johnson
Janet Jones
Phyllis A. Jones
James Joseph
Paul R. Judy
Joseph M. Kacena
Jared Kaplan
Morris A. Kaplan
Roberta Kapoun
Carol W. Keenan
Marshall Keltz
George Kennedy
Esther G. Klatz
Russell V. Kohr
Karen Kuehner
Evelyn and Arnold Kupec
Robert B. Kyts and Jadwiga Roguska-Kyts
Caressa Y. Lauer
Gerald Lee
Patricia Lee
Christine D. Letchinger
Nancy R. Levi
Melynda K. Lopin
William C. Lordan
Tula Lunsford
Iris Maiter
Arthur G. Maling
Bella Malis
Kathleen W. Markiewicz
Walter L. Marr III and Marilyn G. Marr
Eloise Martin
Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L.
McDougal
Eunice H. McGuire
Carolyn D. and William W. McKittrick
Jack L. Melamed, M.D.
Lois G. and Hugo J. Melvoin
Richard Menaul
Susan Messinger
Phillip Migdal
Mollyann Miller
Gloria Miner
Bill Moor
Charles A. Moore
David A. Moore
Marietta Munnis
David H. Nelson
Helen M. Nelson
Muriel Nerad
Piri E. and Jaye S. Niefeld
David Niwa
Raymond and Eloise Niwa
Carol Rauner O’Donovan
T. Paul B. O’Donovan
Mary and Eric Oldberg
Bruce P. Olson
David G. Ostrow
Donald Peck
Charles J. Pollyea
Miriam Pollyea
Donald D. Powell
Samuel Press
Alfred and Maryann Putnam
Christine Querfeld
Ruth Ann Quinn
Kenneth Recu
Walter Reed
Bob Reiland
Evelyn Richer
J. Timothy Ritchie
Virginia H. Rogers
Jill N. Rohde
Elaine Rosen
Ben J. Rosenthal
Anthony Ryerson
Cynthia Mead Sargent
Mrs. Milton Scheffler
Richard P. Schieler
Beverly and Grover Schiltz
Robert W. Schneider
Barbara and Irving Seaman, Jr.
Nancy Seyfried
Muriel Shaw
Morrell A. Shoemaker
Rose L. and Sidney N. Shure
Dr. & Mrs. Alfred L. Siegel
Joan H. and Berton E. Siegel
Joanne Silver
Rita Simó and Tomás Bissonnette
Allen R. Smart
Walter Chalmers Smith
Karen A. Sorensen
Edward J. and Audrey M. Spiegel
Vito Stagliano
Charles J. Starcevich
Curtis D. Stensrud
Franklin R. St. Lawrence
Ruth Miner Swislow
Robert Sychowski
Lester G. Telser
Andrew and Peggy Thomson
Sue Tice
Beatrice B. Tinsley
C. Phillip Turner
Ted Utchen
Lois and James Vrhel
Louise Benton Wagner
Nancy L. Wald
Josephine Wallace
Marco Weiss
Barbara Huth West
The Whateley Trust, in memory of Baron Whateley
Max and Joyce Wildman
Joyce Hadley Williams
Larisa Zhizhin
Ronald R. Zierer
Rita A. Zralek
Tribute Program
The Tribute Program provides an opportunity to celebrate milestones such as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and graduations. It also can serve as a way to honor the memory of friends and family. An Honor or Memorial Gift enables you to express your feelings in a truly distinctive and memorable way. Contributions may be any amount and are placed in the Orchestra’s Endowment Fund. For more information regarding this program, please call 312-294-3100. Listed below are Honor and Memorial Gifts of $100 or more received from October 2023 through July 2024.
MEMORIAL GIFTS
In memory of Mary Alroth
Carla Ciulla
In memory of Frank Alschuler
Mimi Alschuler
In memory of Alfred Balandis
Robert Callahan
In memory of Louise Baldin
Mrs. Frances Naal
In memory of Angie Bannister
Robin Johnson
In memory of Edwin J. Bell
Mr. Edwin Bell
In memory of Lawrence L. Belles
Judy and Scott McCue
In memory of John R. Blair
Fidelity Charitable Gift Funds
In memory of Nicholas Branstetter
Mr. & Mrs. Jackson D. Sturgeon
In memory of Dr. Jerome Brosnan, M.D.
Gisela Brosnan, Julie Brosnan, and Family
In memory of Bill Conaghan
Mr. Jack Jensen and Mrs. Becky Davenport
In memory of William L. Conaghan
Mary and Michael Goodkind
In memory of Robert B. Dean
Ms. Helen Moorman
In memory of Ray T. Dillon
Ms. Cristina Rocca
In memory of Karl Eisenberg
Ms. Patricia Erens
Jill R. Gordon
Marie W. Harris
Sharon Kase
Matt Morozovsky
Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Schimberg
Mrs. Susan Stone
Mrs. Virginia S. Uhlmann
In memory of Linda Eisenhauer
Mrs. Lauretta Berg
In memory of Hazel S. Fackler
Neil Fackler
In memory of Zave Gussin
Mr. Nathan Kahn
In memory of Peter R. and Mary Herr
Peter A. Herr
In memory of Adolph “Bud” Herseth, Dale Clevenger, and Arnold Jacobs
Mr. Esteban Batallán-Cons
In memory of Jane Hindsley
Ms. Cynthia LaFond
In memory of Sally Jacob
Merle L. Jacob
In memory of Joel Jacobson
Alfred and Sandra Jolson
In memory of Richard and Kathleen Joiner
Mr. & Mrs. Lee D. Joiner
In memory of Janet Kanter
Ms. Judith J. Crampton
Ms. Michelle Renner
In memory of Mr. Jack Klecka
Terry Klecka
In memory of Ruby Knight
Ms. Jacquline Briggs
In memory of Frank Koch Wolfinger
Charles J. Linn
In memory of George N. Kohler
Mr. David Curry
In memory of Sang Hyung Lee
Pamela and Charles Smith
In memory of Dr. Steven M. Lewis
Ms. Heather E. Lewis
In memory of Joseph Hanson Mayne
Ms. Fox Fehling
In memory of Francis (Joe) Nolan
Ms. Vera Capp
In memory of Albert Payson
Mr. Paul Dickinson
Susan Reinecke-Masak
In memory of Paul Phillips
Anonymous
Janet Booth
Ms. Lutgart Calcote
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis McCafferty
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mitzen
Mr. Clark Sheldon
Dr. & Mrs. Michael Thompson
In memory of William A. Pollak
Don and Martha Pollak
In memory of Ruth Ann Quinn
Mr. Neil K. Quinn and Family
In memory of Bennett Reimer
Elizabeth A. Hebert
In memory of Richard Rusz
Mrs. Alla Rusz
In memory of Adrienne Samuels
Anonymous
Scott A. Hein
In memory of Doris Shayne and Chauncey Griffith
Mr. David Shayne
In memory of Susie Stein
Dr. & Mrs. Enrique Beckmann
Dr. & Mrs. Tapas K. Das Gupta
Ms. Victoria Dorgan
Joseph and Judith Konen
Dr. Marcia A. Lewis
Ms. Claretta Meier
Pamela and Charles Smith
Mr. & Mrs. David Weber
Ms. Janice Young
In memory of Louise Baldin and Susie Stein
Mrs. Sharon I. Quigley
In memory of Ron and Lynne Wachowski
Peggy Ryan
In memory of Novella Winston
Ms. Betty Henson
In memory of Carol Wordsworth Malley
Charles Leonard Reddington, Artist
In memory of Edward T. Zasadil
Mr. Larry Simpson
HONOR GIFTS
In honor of Judy Boem
Betty Signer
In honor of Liz Branch
Ms. Sarah Good
In honor of Robert Coad
Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Alsaker
Carey and Brett August
Mr. Robert Carson
Barry and Elizabeth Pritchard
Diana and Richard Senior
Mr. & Mrs. † David Shayne
In honor of David Cooper
Daniel P. and Barbara J. Justus
In honor of the legendary CSO Brass section
Marina Abuin and Esteban Batallán
In honor of Jessica Erickson
Ms. Sarah Good
In honor of Melanie Kupchynsky
Ms. Susan Bridge
Mrs. Eileen Conaghan
Mr. & Mrs. Sid Mitchell
Mrs. Sharon I. Quigley
In honor of Sharon Mitchell
Sebastian P. Mitchell
In honor of Gay and Richard Nicholus
Mary Mercante
In honor of Kathy Nordmeyer
Ms. Janice Young
† Deceased
In honor of Margo and Michael Oberman
Mr. Stuart Fried and Mrs. Susan Fried
Mr. & Mrs. Sid Mitchell
In honor of Frances L.A. Penn
Dr. David M. Asher
In honor of Neil Quinn
Ms. Carolyn Quinn
In honor of Bobbie Rafferty
Carey and Brett August
In honor of Cynthia Scholl
Donna Spagnola
In honor of John Sharp, Lei Hou, Qing Hou, William Welter, and Victoria Barbarji
Mr. Eric P. Easterberg and Ms. Cindy Y. Pan
Italics indicate individual or family involvement as part of the Trustees or Governing Members of the
Gifts listed as of July 2024
In honor of Richard and Ellen Shubart
Jeffrey Leeds
In honor of Andrew Sommer
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph DiBello
In honor of Dr. Eugene and Jean Stark
Anonymous
In honor of Brent Taghap
Ms. Cheryl Anderman
Ms. Sarah Good
In honor of Sheila White
Mrs. Rebecca Bingham
In honor of Helen Zell
Penelope R. Steiner
In honor of Jerrold Zisook
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Schimberg
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